Sharing Clinical Notes while Protecting Adolescent Confidentiality and Maintaining Parental Insight.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The 21st Century Cures Act mandates sharing electronic health records (EHRs) with patients. Health care providers must ensure confidential sharing of medical information with adolescents while maintaining parental insight into adolescent health. Given variability in state laws, provider opinions, EHR systems, and technological limitations, consensus on best practices to achieve adolescent clinical note sharing at scale is needed.

Objectives

This study aimed to identify an effective intervention process to implement adolescent clinical note sharing, including ensuring adolescent portal account registration accuracy, across a large multihospital health care system comprising inpatient, emergency, and ambulatory settings.

Methods

A query was built to assess po

SUBMITTER: Elias J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10371408 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature