High uptake of shared electronic health records among HIV-infected patients at an Australian sexual health clinic
Bianca Farrugia Parsons A D and Nathan Ryder A B CA Pacific Clinic – Newcastle Sexual Health Service, Level 2, 670 Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW 2300, Australia.
B The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia (University of New South Wales), Wallace Wurth Building, High Street, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia.
C School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia.
D Corresponding author. Email: bianca.parsons@gmail.com
Sexual Health 13(4) 393-394 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH16035
Submitted: 29 February 2016 Accepted: 12 April 2016 Published: 23 May 2016
Abstract
The uptake of an opt-in system for integrating the health information of HIV-infected patients of an Australian sexual health clinic into the regional shared electronic health record (EHR) is described. A medical record audit was performed to determine the number and demographic characteristics of HIV-infected patients in the study’s sexual health clinic opting in and out of inclusion in the regional shared EHR. The majority of these HIV-infected patients (70%, 95% CI: 58–79%) took up the option of including their HIV-related records into the regional shared electronic health record.
Additional keywords: confidentiality, health information, privacy.
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