Legal issues of the electronic dental record: security and confidentiality

Szekely, DG; Milam, Sallie; Khademi, JA

doi:10.1002/j.0022-0337.1996.60.1.tb03006.x

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“…Nine papers discussed the increased employment of Big Data and data analytics in dentistry related to different applications such as data linkage [34], data analytics in dental schools [35], personalized medicine [36], EHRs [37][38][39], and mHealth and teledentistry [40][41][42].…”

Section: Big Data and Data Analyticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Three papers focused on the implementation of EHRs both in private practices and in dental education [37][38][39]. Ethical issues that arise from this technology are data security, as sensitive patient information could be more easily accessed by unauthorized third parties, resulting in a breach of patient privacy and confidentiality [38,43].…”

Section: Electronic Health Records (Ehrs)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Big Data and Digitalization in Dentistry: A Systematic Review of the Ethical Issues

Favaretto

Shaw

Clercq

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Big Data and Internet and Communication Technologies (ICT) are being increasingly implemented in the healthcare sector. Similarly, research in the field of dental medicine is exploring the potential beneficial uses of digital data both for dental practice and in research. As digitalization is raising numerous novel and unpredictable ethical challenges in the biomedical context, our purpose in this study is to map the debate on the currently discussed ethical issues in digital dentistry through a systematic review of the literature. Four databases (Web of Science, Pub Med, Scopus, and Cinahl) were systematically searched. The study results highlight how most of the issues discussed by the retrieved literature are in line with the ethical challenges that digital technologies are introducing in healthcare such as privacy, anonymity, security, and informed consent. In addition, image forgery aimed at scientific misconduct and insurance fraud was frequently reported, together with issues of online professionalism and commercial interests sought through digital means.

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Section: Big Data and Data Analyticsmentioning

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Section: Electronic Health Records (Ehrs)mentioning

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Big Data and Digitalization in Dentistry: A Systematic Review of the Ethical Issues

Favaretto

Shaw

Clercq

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…Dentists are required to "adopt practices necessary for compliance" (Sfikas 2003;Chasteen et al 2003). These and other regulations (Szekely et al 1996) will encourage homogeny among different system vendors. Computer ownership, on the other hand, has increased steadily during the last 25 years.…”

Section: The Computer-based Oral Health Record (Cohr) and Computer Owmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biosurveillance and Dentistry

Torres-Urquidy

2018

Health Informatics

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The public health environment (like the rest of healthcare) is changing and incorporating digital strategies at the forefront of their responses to public health events and routine public health interventions. The H1N1 pandemic, SARS, Ebola epidemic, and Zika pandemic are recent global events of public health concern (Fineberg 2014;Dixon et al. 2014;Fauci and Morens 2016). In addition, other local crises such as the US opioid epidemic (US Department of Health and Human Services 2017), have reinforced the need to establish bidirectional communications between clinical practices and public health authorities. As a result, organized healthcare has established and adopted protocols to rapidly handle patients and related risks adequately. It is now common in clinical practices to hear the question "have you travelled abroad recently?" or "have you been to places experiencing a public health emergency?" Furthermore, guidance from public health authorities can be seen posted throughout halls or clinical spaces in practices. These messages and warnings are now also part of electronic health records and patients are questioned and treated accordingly. Public health authorities (federal, state, and local) continue to develop strategies to reach both clinicians and the general public and having the capacity to handle electronic health record data is a high priority for all of them.In the case of surveillance, there are a myriad of mechanisms to collect, distribute, and aggregate information (Groseclose and Buckeridge 2017). In addition, in the US, the public health surveillance effort is highly distributed where, depending on the type of condition, funding stream, and/or regulation, the authority and scope of responsibility of the different public health agencies is spread across geographical boundaries. Furthermore, local, state, and/or federal priorities can modify the way surveillance gets conducted. Whether responding to public health emergencies,

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“…Szekely et al. (7) described security and confidentiality as the patient's right to privacy and the practitioner's duty to ensure the confidentiality of health records. Historically, access to the dental records was not considered an issue, as the only people who had access were the dentist and relevant staff members.…”

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4.4 Electronic management systems

Eplee

Murray

Revere

et al. 2002

Eur J Dental Education

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The international development and deployment of an electronic modularized dental curriculum is central to the development of an electronic engine to be used for the effective management of dental education. This will ensure continuity in high quality of care across all boundaries, through the continuous updating of its content and linkages to contemporary resources and databases. An electronic engine to be used for the effective management of dental education in a comprehensive dental school/hospital setting is at the core of an international 'virtual' dental education institution. The issue of policy development necessary to ensure consistency, quality and management for an electronic engine is at the very centre of: a) systems management and system databases; b) records of students, patients and personnel; and c) financial records.

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Legal issues of the electronic dental record: security and confidentiality

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Big Data and Digitalization in Dentistry: A Systematic Review of the Ethical Issues

Big Data and Digitalization in Dentistry: A Systematic Review of the Ethical Issues

Biosurveillance and Dentistry

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