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ETHICS IN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD: AN OVERVIEW

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  • 1. Sr. Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Education, Botho University, Gaborone, Botswana
  • 2. Sr. Lecturer, Quality Assurance Department, New Era College, Gaborone, Botswana

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The usage of Electronic Health Record (EHR) has taken a big role in Healthcare Sector and EHR are started to implement in most of the countries in the world. EHR helps in improving the quality of the treatment by referring the previous history and any time access. But, as a system EHR can be used anywhere any time, the query arises on its data security while sharing the data. Despite its rising utility and growing enthusiasm for its adoption, the ethical considerations that may arise are receiving little attention. Need to look way on how to secure the EHR Systems and found one way as to encode the data and then it can be shared with a security pin. This article entitles the different possible ways of the ethics or ethical considerations which can come by using the EHR Systems and its thinkable results that can be implemented.

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