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Medical communication between patient-doctor is considered privileged, and demands strict confidentiality. Patients should put their name and patient identification number in the body of the message. Do not forward patient-identifiable information to a third party without the patient's express permission.
Medical communication between patient-doctor is considered privileged, and demands strict confidentiality. Patients should put their name and patient identification number in the body of the message. Do not forward patient-identifiable information to a third party without the patient's express permission.
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Medical communication between patient-doctor is considered privileged, and demands strict confidentiality. Patients should put their name and patient identification number in the body of the message. Do not forward patient-identifiable information to a third party without the patient's express permission.
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considered privileged, and demands strict confidentiality.
Features of medical communication-
1) Effective interaction between the
clinician and patient,
2) Observance of medicolegal prudence
Advantages of using e-mail • Accelerates communication of the written word.
• Allows communication any time of day.
• Does not need the attention of both parties at
the same time. Advantages… • Provides a mechanism for sending the same health education information simultaneously to many patients,
• Is simple, convenient and inexpensive to use,
• Enables physicians to direct patients to health
information on the Internet. Informed consent for use of e- mail. Guidelines. * Provide instructions for when and how to escalate to phone calls and office visits. * Describe security mechanisms in place. * Indemnify the health care institution for information loss due to technical failures. * Waive encryption requirement, if any, at patient's insistence. Practical implications - • Patients to put their name and patient identification number in the body of the message.
• Print all messages, with replies and
confirmation of receipt, and place in patient's paper chart. Categorize emails Patients to put category of transaction in subject line of message for filtering: eg. • “prescription,” • “appointment,” • “medical advice,” • “billing question”. Security
• Never forward patient-identifiable information to a
third party without the patient's express permission.
• Do not share professional e-mail accounts with family
members.
• Do not use unencrypted wireless communications with
patient-identifiable information.
• Perform at least weekly backups of mail onto long-term
storage. • Do not use e-mail for urgent matters.
• Maintain a mailing list of patients, but
Do not send group mailings where recipients
are visible to each other.
Use blind copy feature in software. • Both parties to use Auto-reply tool to confirm receipt of message. Soul Thang Composed by: Scott P. Schreer, Stephen A. Love. •https://www.amia.org/mbrcenter/pubs/email_guidelines.asp •http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC61279/?tool=pubmed Sr. Advisor (Medical communications) Digital-medicine.blogspot.com