Quality of Healthcare

The goal of protecting patient information privacy often conflicts with the goal of providing the improved healthcare that EMRs can support. Provisions in HIPAA provide some confidentiality protection, but not enough. Potential for a major privacy breach lies in the system of primary or secondary users.

What privacy and security issues are hindering the adoption of EMR systems? In your opinion, which of these issues is the most important to address first? Drawing on course readings or outside scholarly sources, support your answer with examples and clear rationales.

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An electronic medical record (EMR) is a system that is used to record and store medical records and history of patients for easy retrieval in future. The system is designed in a manner that it can ensure the availability of the registers at any time whenever they are needed and in the shortest time possible. The system is connected in a manner that a physician can access a patient’s medical history from any healthcare facility that a patient may visit…………………….

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