In the US, patient health records are highly confidential and protected by law. Public health departments and university survey research centers often make aggregated data on health and medical conditions available.
A number of organisations sell anonymised public health records to researchers. It is nearly impossible to obtain actual patient health record data in most countries in the world because of confidentiality.
Why do you want the dataset? Are you trying to test a EPR system?. There are some open source dummy record datasets in existence.
I note that "The Egyptian Constitution has not defined data protection. However, it refers to the legislative authority to regulate the communication of data in a manner that does not encroach upon the privacy of citizens, their rights and National Security." I thought you might like to read the document " The Right to Privacy in Egypt" which I attach, good luck in your endeavours, Prof Graham Wright
If you have a special interest, an observational, retrospective, medical record-based study, such as a case-series, if you have the research expertise in the field of this kind of studies, in some countries, you can submit your protocol to the hospital ethics and research review board, so that you could ask annonimized information of the medical attention of patients who meet your inclusion criteria. In that way, you can have access to their medical files.
Request for patients records in most places is done through hospital research ethics committees that serve as gate keepers. All you need is to apply and attach your protocol which will be checked for ethical clearance. Guidelines providing the records are done in line with the ethical principles of maintaining balance between minimal harm and patient benefit.
you can use MIMIC-III database, the link is below:
https://mimic.physionet.org/
MIMIC-III, a freely accessible critical care database.
MIMIC is an openly available dataset developed by the MIT Lab for Computational Physiology, comprising deidentified health data associated with ~40,000 critical care patients. It includes demographics, vital signs, laboratory tests, medications, and more.
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