Attitudes Of People Who Use Medical Services About Privacy Of EHR

In health services, it is a necessity to keep the records of the patients. Although paper-based records are commonly used for this aim, they are not as convenient as computerized records. Therefore, many of the health facilities have recently started keeping patients health records in electronic databases. However, new questions about confidentiality and privacy of these records were raised with this new system. This study aims to investigate the opinions and attitudes of the people who use the health services of Turkey about the privacy and confidentiality of health information in electronic environment. In the survey, there are 596 participants from 64 different cities in six geographical regions of Turkey. The findings show that people feel comfortable about computer usage in health-care but they are concerned about the privacy and confidentiality of their information and also they are not sure if their medical information is safe and secure now. Moreover, they are mostly unaware about current regulations related to information privacy in Turkey...

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Özlem ÖZKAN was born in stanbul Turkey in 1983. She completed her bachelor education at the department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies at Middle East Technical University in 2007. In the same year she decided to choose a different career on Medical Informatics and she graduated from the master program of the same university.