Question

Presume that a medical office had electronic health records instead of paper records. Would the risk of a privacy violation be as great? How could records of AIDS patients be identified to safeguard staff, while also maintaining the privacy of the patients in a paper and electronic health record? Construct these methods. Provide in no more than 3 paragraphs.

Answer 1

Electronic health record is a systematic approach of data and information of the patient. There is always risk of privacy violation in both paper as well as in the EHR system. But the risk of privacy violation in the EHR is less than paper documents.

The documents and the information of the patient suffering from AIDs can be safe and privacy violation can be prevented by various methods in EHR:

• Data encryption: It prevent the data and information in the system.
• Password: Setting password in the system as well as to the folder of the patient's records.
• Prevent data transfer: Minimise the transfer of data from one system to another.

The information and documents on paper can be saved as:

• Maintenance of a seperate file of patient's medical records.
• Maintenance of seperate shelf or room for storing the files.
• Prevent the entry of unknown or any other person who is not related to the Healthcare organisation.