Aplicability proposal for digital preservation of patients’ electronic records

Autor: Pinto, Virginia Bentes, Sales, Odete Máyra Mesquita
Rok vydání: 2017
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5172295
Popis: We present the preliminary results of a research on digital preservation and curation, as well as the possibility of applicability to the context of health documentation, as a memory of health. The research was based on the following question: How can the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) standard be applied to patients' electronic records, with a view to preserving digital contents, to ensure confidentiality, reliability, authenticity and access to who rightly owns the information recorded in these documents? The basic objective is to study the literature regarding preservation and digital curation, with emphasis on the OAIS standard, considering the possibility of its application for the development of a Digital Repository of Electronic Patient Records, observing the legal order concerning this type of document. Exploratory research based on the state of the art survey on the topic under discussion. The corpus of the study consisted of 01 (one) medical record (five volumes) of the specialty of nephrology, focusing on the year of 1970. The empirical study was in the Medical and Statistical Archive Service, Walter Cantídio University Hospital of the Federal University of Ceará. The findings show that, although there are already several initiatives on the digital preservation of scientific technological and cultural documentation, we did not find experiences on medical records. Furthermore, the OAIS model can be applied to the context of the patient's electronic medical records, provided the particular characteristics of legality of accessto these documents are observed, as well as the requirements and/or guidelines for implementing a DigitalRepository for Electronic Patient Records.
Databáze: OpenAIRE