Electronic Health Record Adolescent Confidentiality in a Safety Net Setting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The 21st Century Cures Act provides improved access to one's medical record but presents new challenges to adolescent confidentiality in the domain of health care information technology. Adolescent patients, who have the right to confidential care in certain areas as dictated by state law, face the prospect of parents and guardians erroneously accessing their confidential health information.

Objectives

Our institution, the largest safety net hospital in our region, sought to quantify the proportion of adolescent patient portal accounts likely being accessed by guardians and to implement corrective measures for the patient portal sign-up process in our electronic health record (EHR) system.

Methods

We manually reviewed our institution's adolescent patient po

SUBMITTER: You JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10620039 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature