The Pros And Cons Of Electronic Medical Records

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President has been trying to have the switch of electronic health records due to high demand for healthcare; joining electronic medical records will reduce cost and save money. The topic that keeps coming up is the patient confidentiality; the concern is keeping their information from falling into the wrong hands; in other words keeping it from others who do not have permission to access it. Once the glitches are worked out and there are solutions that will prevent this from happening all medical services will be using this method, however until this is accomplished it will be left on hold. According to Sutherly (2010), the car accident that Brennan Eden was involved in revealed some important issues regarding electronic medical records. Apparently, You Tube had clips that people were able to view regarding Brennan accident, it was found out later approximately two hundred employees that worked at the hospital Brennan was taken too accessed his information. This incident has caused concerned to how one’s information is easily accessed without permission. An article was published in the New York Times that focused on protecting patient’s rights. According to that article there have been several breaches due to not having the proper security system that would safeguard this information (Pear, 2007). This would not just affect a few people; it would affect anyone who has been seen for any type of medical reason. Meanwhile, there are several issues relating to legal and ethical problems regarding electronic medical records, however, the legal issues can be easily handle, but the ethical issues concerning who will be permitted to access this information is another story and not so easily addressed. With the incident involving Brennan E...

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...g done and new ways of committing it; protecting information is vital when fighting identity theft and fraud. Although, there have been several ideas to overcome these issues; however, the truth is these organizations simply cannot afford to do them without extra funding. Until the economy turns around and government spending lessens there is no resolving the problems at hand. References ‣ Pear, Robert. (2007, January, 17) “Privacy Issue Complicates Push to Link Medical Data” NewYork Times ‣ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/us/politics/18health.html ‣ Sutherly, Ben. (2010, October, 23) “Electronic Health Records Raise Fresh Privacy Concerns” Dayton Daily News http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton- ‣ White, Jon P. (2009) “Privacy and Security Solutions for Interoperable Health Information ‣ Exchange” Office of the Coordinator for Health Information Technology

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