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DrTalyaPorat

Faculty of Engineering, Dyson School of Design Engineering

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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@article{Tapuria:2021:10.1080/17538157.2021.1879810,
author = {Tapuria, A and Porat, T and Kalra, D and Dsouza, G and Xiaohui, S and Curcin, V},
doi = {10.1080/17538157.2021.1879810},
journal = {Informatics for Health and Social Care},
pages = {194--204},
title = {Impact of patient access to their electronic health record: systematic review.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538157.2021.1879810},
volume = {46},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Patient access to their own electronic health records (EHRs) is likely to become an integral part of healthcare systems worldwide. It has the potential to decrease the healthcare provision costs, improve access to healthcare data, self-care, quality of care, and health and patient-centered outcomes. This systematic literature review is aimed at identifying the impact in terms of benefits and issues that have so far been demonstrated by providing patients access to their own EHRs, via providers' secure patient portals from primary healthcare centers and hospitals. Searches were conducted in PubMed, MEDLINE, CINHAL, and Google scholar. Over 2000 papers were screened and were filtered based on duplicates, then by reading the titles and finally based on their abstracts or full text. In total, 74 papers were retained, analyzed, and summarized. Papers were included if providing patient access to their own EHRs was the primary intervention used in the study and its impact or outcome was evaluated. The search technique used to identify relevant literature for this paper involved input from five experts. While findings from 54 of the 74 papers showed positive outcome or benefits of patient access to their EHRs via patient portals, 10 papers have highlighted concerns, 8 papers have highlighted both and 2 have highlighted absence of negative outcomes. The benefits range from re-assurance, reduced anxiety, positive impact on consultations, better doctor-patient relationship, increased awareness and adherence to medication, and improved patient outcomes (e.g., improving blood pressure and glycemic control in a range of study populations). In addition, patient access to their health information was found to improve self-reported levels of engagement or activation related to self-management, enhanced knowledge, and improve recovery scores, and organizational efficiencies in a tertiary level mental health care facility. However, three studies did not find any statistically signific
AU  - Tapuria,A
AU  - Porat,T
AU  - Kalra,D
AU  - Dsouza,G
AU  - Xiaohui,S
AU  - Curcin,V
DO  - 10.1080/17538157.2021.1879810
EP  - 204
PY  - 2021///
SN  - 0959-8316
SP  - 194
TI  - Impact of patient access to their electronic health record: systematic review.
T2  - Informatics for Health and Social Care
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538157.2021.1879810
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33840342
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538157.2021.1879810
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/89290
VL  - 46
ER  -
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