Question

The information provided below is from the HL7 International Section 1b: EHR- Electronic Health Records

Section 1b: EHR - Electronic Health Records PHR-S FM Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) DESCRIPTION The Personal Health Record System Functional Model, Release 1 standard specifies features and functions necessary to create and effectively manage PHRs and that help an individual maintain a longitudinal view of his or her health history. Personal Health Record information is expected to be sent, received, or exchanged from multiple systems, including: Electronic Health Record systems, insurer systems, payer systems, health information exchanges, public health systems, Internet-based health education sites, clinical trials systems, and/or collaborative care systems. ALTERNATIVE NAMES PHR-S FM Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) may also go by the following names or acronyms: "PHR-System Functional Model, Release 1", PHR FM TARGETS . Clinical and Public Health Laboratories • Immunization Registries . Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) • Regulatory Agency • Payors . Patients Consumers) • Employers: Military; School; Nursing Home; Pharmacy • EHR, PHR Vendors • Mobile Health devices vendors • Emergency Services Providers • Local and State Departments of Health • Medical Imaging Service Providers • Healthcare Institutions (hospitals, long term care, home care, mental health) • Pharmacists, Nutritionists, Dermatologist providers
QUESTION: To what extent does the proposed certification program promote patient safety?

Answer 1

Personal Health Record System- EHR that is specified here is well manufactured and planned recording system that helps in recording patient health information and support the interprofessional communication in health and social care. The specification provided by this system shows that the system is planned to record and document the patient health records and enable the technology to help share it between the agencies, patients, professionals and organizations. This clause seem to put the public health records on the platform where it can be assessed by multiple parties, this makes the information less confidential and is not providing adequate privacy for the records.

Hebce, it can be said that the system works in order to collect and gather nation wide and based data for health of the population but it lacks adequate privacy sequence to be followed, that would help keeping the information confidential. Hence, the system is good for the data collection as per government guidelines but is not very safe as per the confidentiality legislation stated in healthcare.