Attitude Towards Health Information Privacy and Electronic Health Records Among Urban Sri Lankan Adults
Tissera, S.R.; Silva, S.N.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 225: 1003-1004
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 27332453 Document Number: 688638
Sri Lanka is planning to move towards an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. This research argues that the public preparedness should be considered in order to implement a functioning and an effective EHR system in a country. When asked about how concerned the participants were about the security of their health records, 40.5% stated they were concerned and 38.8% were very concerned. They were asked to rate the 'level of trust' they have on health institutes in Sri Lanka on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 lowest level of trust and 10 highest), 66.1% rated at level 5 or less.