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Attitudes Of People Who Use Medical Services About Privacy Of EHR: Opinions on Privacy and Confidentiality of Health Information in Electronic Environment - Couverture souple

Özkan, Özlem; Saka, Osman; Arifoğlu, Ali

 
9783845417721: Attitudes Of People Who Use Medical Services About Privacy Of EHR: Opinions on Privacy and Confidentiality of Health Information in Electronic Environment
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ISBN 10 : 3845417722 ISBN 13 : 9783845417721
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

In health services, it is a necessity to keep the records of the patients. Although paper-based records are commonly used for this aim, they are not as convenient as computerized records. Therefore, many of the health facilities have recently started keeping patients’ health records in electronic databases. However, new questions about confidentiality and privacy of these records were raised with this new system. This study aims to investigate the opinions and attitudes of the people who use the health services of Turkey about the privacy and confidentiality of health information in electronic environment. In the survey, there are 596 participants from 64 different cities in six geographical regions of Turkey. The findings show that people feel comfortable about computer usage in health-care but they are concerned about the privacy and confidentiality of their information and also they are not sure if their medical information is safe and secure now. Moreover, they are mostly unaware about current regulations related to information privacy in Turkey...

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In health services, it is a necessity to keep the records of the patients. Although paper-based records are commonly used for this aim, they are not as convenient as computerized records. Therefore, many of the health facilities have recently started keeping patients’ health records in electronic databases. However, new questions about confidentiality and privacy of these records were raised with this new system. This study aims to investigate the opinions and attitudes of the people who use the health services of Turkey about the privacy and confidentiality of health information in electronic environment. In the survey, there are 596 participants from 64 different cities in six geographical regions of Turkey. The findings show that people feel comfortable about computer usage in health-care but they are concerned about the privacy and confidentiality of their information and also they are not sure if their medical information is safe and secure now. Moreover, they are mostly unaware about current regulations related to information privacy in Turkey...

Biographie de l'auteur

Özlem ÖZKAN was born in İstanbul Turkey in 1983. She completed her bachelor education at the department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies at Middle East Technical University in 2007. In the same year she decided to choose a different career on Medical Informatics and she graduated from the master program of the same university.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3845417722
ISBN 13 
9783845417721
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
100
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