title: Fear of e-Health records implementation?
abstract: As our world is dominated by Information Communication and Technologies (ICT), governments of many leading countries have decided to implement ICT in their health systems. The first step is the digitalisation of medical records (e-Health Records or EHRs). In order to reduce concerns that health systems encountered, EHRs are supposed to prevent duplicated prescriptions and hospitalisations, ineffective transferability of medical records, lack of communication in clinical assessments, etc. They are also expected to improve the relationship between health providers and patients. At first sight, EHR seems to offer considerable potential for assisting health policies, enabling the development of new tools to facilitate coordination and cooperation among health professionals and promoting a new approach to sharing medical information. However, as discussed in this article, recent debates have shown that EHR presents pros and cons (technical, financial, social) that governments need to clarify urgently.
authors.affiliation: Lawyer and legal translator (Chartered Institute of Linguist, Naati, Ausit) lauraudrey@yahoo.fr.
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laur
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000592:standards; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005239:Fear; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D016730:Program Development
keywords: EHR; EMR; ICT; Medical records; electronic; health system