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Electronic Patient Record

Electronic Patient Record. The potential to bring huge benefits to Patients. Contents. Introduction . Terminologies. Beneficial features of EPR. Drawbacks of EPR. Privacy Issues . Technical issues . References. Introduction.

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Electronic Patient Record

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  1. Electronic Patient Record The potential to bring huge benefits to Patients.

  2. Contents • Introduction. • Terminologies. • Beneficial features of EPR. • Drawbacks of EPR. • Privacy Issues . • Technical issues. • References.

  3. Introduction • Electronic Patient Record(EPR) is a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients . It is a record in digital format that is capable of being shared across different health care settings, by being embedded in network-connected enterprise-wide information systems.

  4. Terminologies • EPR (EHR): Discussed previously. • EMR: Electronic Medical Record. • SCR: Summary Care Record it contains basic information. • DCR: Detailed Care Records it contains more comprehensive clinical information • SUS: Secondary Uses Service which provides access to aggregated data for management, research and other ‘secondary’ purposes.

  5. Beneficial Features of EPR • Improve quality of care • Promote evidence-based medicine • Record keeping and mobility

  6. Improve quality of care • The implementation of electronic health records (EHR) can help lessen patient sufferance due to medical errors and the inability of analysts to assess quality

  7. Promote evidence-based medicine • EHRs provide access to unprecedented amounts of clinical data for research that can accelerate the level of knowledge of effective medical practices.

  8. Record keeping and mobility • EHR systems have the advantages of being able to connect to many electronic medical record systems. In the current global medical environment, patients are shopping for their procedures. • Coordinating appointments for specialty treatment or to participate in Clinical Trials via paper records is a time-consuming procedure

  9. Drawbacks of EPR • Costs Critics point out that while EHRs may save the "health system" money, physicians, those who buy the systems, may not benefit financially. EHR price tags range widely, depending on what's included, how robust the system is, and how many providers use it. • Time Often, doctors do not want to spend the time to learn a new system. Some doctors believe that adopting a system with EHRs could reduce clinical productivity

  10. Privacy Concerns • Privacy concerns in healthcare apply to both paper and electronic records. • Roughly 150 people have access to at least part of a patient's records during a hospitalization.

  11. Standards on Privacy concerns • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)(USA), • European Union (EU) • Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act(Canada)

  12. Technical issues • Standards (Customization). • Long-term preservation and storage of records • Synchronization of records

  13. Sample view of an electronic health record

  14. Sample view of an electronic health record based on images

  15. References • Wikipedia. • House of Commons Health Committee(Sixth Report of Session 2006–07)

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