How can the German Electronic Health Card support patient's role in care management

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 137, Issue , 2008, Pages 386-401

  Pharow, Peter ^a   Blobel, Bernd ^a   Hildebrand, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electronic health record; Health cards; Patient data cards; Patient empowerment; Patient involvement; Personalized portable devices; Security infrastructure; Security policy

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; PATIENT DATA; PATIENT EMPOWERMENTS; PATIENT INVOLVEMENT; PORTABLE DEVICE; SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE; SECURITY POLICY;

NETWORK SECURITY;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SECURITY; GERMANY; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION;

COMPUTER SECURITY; GERMANY; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 52649090761     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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