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标题：Electronic patient record and legislative issues in the processing of sensitive personal data
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作者：Paul Sarafis ; Maria Malliarou ; Dionysia Damigou 等
期刊名称：Balkan Military Medical Review
电子版ISSN：1107-6275
出版年度：2010
卷号：13
期号：1
页码：25-32
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出版社：International Medical Journal Management and Indexing System
摘要：The purpose of this study is to present the general legislative status in Greece, EU, and USA for the protection of sensitive personal data in the Electronic Patient Record (EPR). EPR is an evolving idea determined as a long-term collection of health care information of patients and popula- tions. EPR has gained a great value in the health care environment. Its contribution to the improve- ment of the quality of health care provision, to the reduction of health services' costs, and to the increase of productivity and efficiency of the health care professionals, justify its importance. The automation of all processes that contribute to the benefit of health care services, to the critical deci- sion making regarding patient's health and life, to education and research, makes electronic patient records' security an essential issue that ensures the validity, reliability, and availability of medical information but also the patient's right for privacy in his personal sensitive health data. It is evident that the patient's right to confidentiality in his per- sonal data cannot be underestimated in the imple- mentation of the EPR. The determination of ethic and legal guidelines and criteria relevant to the electronic collection, processing, and communica- tion of personal sensitive health data, is vital. A potential disclosure of patient's personal data puts in risk the relationship between the patient and the physician or nurse but also the one among the members of the entire society since the patient may be afraid or reluctant to trust to reveal critical information that concern not only his personal health but also the public health. Each country in EU but in America also tries to protect the people's right for a safe handling of personal data included in an EPR by setting the minimum necessary requirements for each health organization that uses it and by creating laws for the same purpose. Greece, following the instructions by EU, has already legislated in order to protect the EPR's sensitive personal data.
关键词：Electronic Patient Record; sensitive personal data; legislation; security; HIP AA; patient's rights.