title: Role-based access in a unified electronic patient record.
abstract: As modern healthcare shifts towards a patient-centric model, there is an increasing emphasis on teamwork. Legacy healthcare information systems are ill equipped to meet new requirements arising from this change. Many projects have been undertaken to address various aspects of the challenge of supporting patient-centric work. In the UK, development and adoption of a unified electronic patient record (EPR) that serves practitioners across the country is a high priority. This article considers what additional support healthcare teams will require beyond the cross-discipline unified EPR. A system that considers practitioners as part of a patient's care team and which tracks teams and professional roles is proposed and evaluated as a means to provide each practitioner with a view of the EPR appropriate to his/her professional role and to provide improved support for collaboration among team members.
authors.affiliation: Cardiff University, UK. A.Skilton@cs.cf.ac.uk
authors.forename: Alysia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Skilton
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Alex Gray
authors.forename: Omnia
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Allam
authors.forename: Dave
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Morrey
mesh_terms: D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010819:Physician's Role; D012984:Software; D006113:United Kingdom