Data integrity related to accuracy of healthcare data. Due to electronic data interchange and exchange of information between the diagnostic clinics and general practitioners, clinicians or relevant medical professionals between healthcare organisations, data can be changed or tampered with as it moves between healthcare organisations, resulting in poor documentation integrity and errors in medical records.
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My Health Record and Emerging Cybersecurity Challenges in the Australian Digital Environment
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6975-7.ch005
Abstract
The main aim of embracing evolutionary digital e-health technologies such as ‘My Health Records' is to transform and empower the patients to control their health records, access, choose the right healthcare provider and suitable treatment, when required. It has been a challenge for the healthcare practitioners, hospital staff, as well as patients to accept, embrace, and adopt transformative digital e-health technologies and manage their healthcare records amidst concerns of slow adoption by the patient due to data privacy and cybersecurity issues. Australia, since COVID-19, has stressed the importance of secure online connectivity for the government, business, and the consumers. It is essential that My Health Record platform is cyber-safe, and user-friendly so that consumers feel conformable, safe and secure regarding their personal health records. This chapter discussed the challenges of embracing e-health digital technologies and assurance of advancing cybersecurity of online My Health Record, which will transform e-health provision and empower patients and healthcare providers.