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5. Actions for the WHO

5.1 The WHO should recognize the significance benefits accrued by full RA to the electronic health record. 5.2 The WHO should promote RA as a key aspect of care. 5.3 The WHO should ensure that health...

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4. Complex Issues

4.1. Access to their records by children and their parents 4.2. Third party information 4.3. Language 4.4. Patients with psychiatric problems 4.5. Litigation 4.6. Security and authentication 4.7....

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3.5. Benefits to the health service

3.5.1 Patient with RA may need fewer appointments. Research suggests that, if patients have seen the information in their records that they need, they do not make unnecessary appointments.[9] 3.5.2...

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3.4. Improved record keeping

3.4.1 RA enables patients to correct their records. The commonest errors in UK records are demographic. RA allows patients to point out or indicate errors in their records and enables them to request...

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3.3. RA empowers patients

3.3.1 Patients with RA feel more in control.[5] 3.3.2 RA helps patients can find information out for themselves. For instance, through test results, care pathways or letters about them. Support...

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3.2. Direct benefit to health

3.2.1 RA supports patients in being more informed about their health, disease and care pathways. We know that informed patients have both better outcomes and use health services less 3.2.2 RA can...

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3.1. Ethical reasons:

3.1.1 People increasingly have a right to see information held about them that is not damaging to national security. In some countries, access to health information is constrained by concerns for...

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2. What

RA is the process whereby a user of a health service has the power to access their electronic health record (EHR). The EHR means any health record holding information pertaining exclusively to that...

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1. Aim

To ensure that patient record access (RA) is incorporated in WHO development plans.

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