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