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Ethical issues in electronic health records: A general overview
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Electronic health record (EHR) is increasingly being implemented in many developing countries. It is the need of the hour because it improves the quality of health care and is also cost-effective. Technologies can introduce some hazards hence safety of information in the system is a real challenge. Recent news of security breaches has put a question mark on this system. Despite its increased usefulness, and increasing enthusiasm in its adoption, not much attention is being paid to the ethical issues that might arise. Securing EHR with an encrypted password is a probable option. The purpose of this article is to discuss the various ethical issues arising in the use of the EHRs and their possible solutions.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jamshed, N., Ozair, F., Sharma, A., & Aggarwal, P.
- Affiliations
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (IN)
- Jamia Hamdard (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Jamshed, Nayer
- Venue
- Perspectives in Clinical Research
- Published
- 2015
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 73
- ISSN
- 2229-3485 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4394583
- OpenAlex
- W1978116440
- Cited by
- 211
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 28.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-sa
- Locations
- Perspectives in Clinical Research (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Thoreau and American Literature
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Keywords
- electronic health records, medical ethics, data security, data privacy, security breaches, encryption, password security, health information technology adoption, developing countries
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