Electronic health records enable the global availability of medical data. This has numerous benefits for the quality of offered services. However, privacy concerns may arise as now both the patient’s medical history as well as the doctor’s activities can be tracked. In this paper, we propose an electronic health record system which allows the patient to control who has access to her health…
Medical Device incident reporting is a legal obligation for professional users in Finland. We analyzed all medical device incident reports recorded into the national incident repository from January 2014 to August 2021. Almost 30% of the total of 5,897 recorded incidents were caused by top ten devices, of which electronic health records were the most common (332 incidents). High number of inci…
Electronic health records (EHRs) are the collection of all digitalized information regarding individual’s health. EHRs are not only the base for storing clinical information for archival purposes, but they are also the bedrock on which clinical research and data science thrive. In this chapter, we describe the main aspects of good quality EHR systems, and some of the standard practices in th…