Traditionally, the databases dedicated to the recording of electronic medical records (EMR) have been monolithic, centralized and isolated. The evolution of data architectures and their distributed location in the Cloud, motivate us to consider them as an excellent option for timely and secure access; however, we wonder what legal implications this suggested scenario might have. Generally, EMR information is treated with great caution, reserve and even fear of the legal consequences of potential lawsuits that doctors and health centers may suffer for disclosing health information belonging to patients or for mishandling it.
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The required degree of diligence to keep confidential protected health information and respect for privacy of patients remain unchanged regardless of the form, paper medical records or EMR, one is dealing with. Depending on the existing laws, specific or related, of a particular jurisdiction, (data privacy law for instance) data bases issues are covered by provisions on data processing and data security. Take note that the hospital industry is deemed engage in a large-scale data processing.
The precedents of the existing law is paramount and what happens with regard to nuances of that law if it leaves any loophole for arbitrariness. Secondly, the Electronic Medical Record of a patient must also respect the consent expressed in documented info on the medical record paying attention to whether the individual is a minor or an invalid. It is possible that different patient or status of person is with or without standing with regard to EMR such might become an irrelevant inquiry in some case and waste the taxpayers fund in floodgates. Regarding the reality or functionality status of the EMR subject perhaps relief must be sought in fictional proposal or at best dynamism of pragmatism device as in what works. All these will depend on the precedent of the stare decisis.
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