title: HealthConnect and the duty of care: a dilemma for medical practitioners.
abstract: This article asks whether medical practitioners' duty of care to their patients will encompass participation in the HealthConnect shared electronic records initiative. Medico-legal aspects of the HeathConnect scheme relating to the nature of shared electronic health record summaries (SEHRS) are examined, focusing on their function as an element of patient care and their ultimate purpose. The analysis is based on the premise that an incomplete and hence inaccurate shared electronic health record summary is clinically and legally more perilous than no record at all.
authors.affiliation: School of Law, Deakin University, Burwood Highway, Burwood, Vic 3125, Australia. danuta.mendelson@deakin.edu.au
authors.forename: Danuta
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mendelson
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003657:Decision Making; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards*; D005791:Patient Care / Q000592:standards