Electronic Medical Record for Deliverance of Effective Healthcare Delivery: Ethical Issues and Challenges of Digitalization in Clinical Information and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Management
Journal Title: IOSR journal of Business and Management - Year 2018, Vol 20, Issue 3
Abstract
There is no denying fact that the application of ethics in medical / health sector have much more significance. In healthcare sector, than any other sector because of many factors which is related to privacy, confidentiality and personal information involved with this sector.No one doubt about Electronic Medical Records have potential to improve clinical care, but this paper focus on mainly the ethical issues of electronic health record in public health sector. Even after the growth of computer technology in medicine and allied subjects, most medical prescriptions and recordings are still documented on paper medical records. We have enormous benefits and advantages for keeping the electronic medical record documentation still EMR’s are not very popular because of this issue connected with ethical, legal, confidentiality, security.In current scenario the implementation, development and percentage of utilization of Electronic Health Record is comparatively with other sector is very low. Here in this paper we mainly focused on ethical issues related to facility based integrated record which can share, access, available in public domain.
Authors and Affiliations
Sakhi John Assistant Professor, Dr. N . Ravichandran Associate Professor, Dr. Mohd. Faisal Khan
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