Perceived benefits | |
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Improvements in the efficiency of health care and the speed of communication | |
Access to up-to-date information about patients | |
Improvements in the quality of care (e.g. prevention of medical errors) | |
Perceived problems: confidentiality and security of electronic information exchange | |
General | n-EPR |
- Unauthorised persons having access to patient data due to limited security of electronic information systems or carelessness/misuse by health care providers | - Risks regarding patients' privacy and unauthorised persons' access to patient data will increase |
- Using authorisation profiles to organise access to electronic patient records can cause problems in crisis situations | - Limited safety of the UZI-pass |
- The limited usefulness of logging data for evaluating the legitimacy of health care providers' access to patient data | - It is unclear how the legitimacy of health care providers' access to patient data will be evaluated and who will be responsible for the evaluation |
 | - Essential information may be missed because of patients' desire to protect their privacy and conceal their electronic records or parts of it |
Perceived problems: reliability and quality of patient information | |
- Inadequate recording of patient information | - Inadequate recording of patient information |
- Interoperability problems between information systems | - Health care providers may become more cautious in recording sensitive or personal patient information in electronic records |
- Information overload | - Doubts about the technical performance of the n-EPR |
- Limited speed of electronic information exchange | Â |
Other perceived problems | |
- Health care providers' liability in case of medical errors is unclear | - Unfamiliarity of other health care providers |
- Limited usefulness of protocols and guidelines | Â |