Patients' Access to Their Psychiatric Records-A Comparison of Four Countries

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Challenges of Trustable AI and Added-Value on Health - Proceedings of MIE 2022, pp. 510-514, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics ; Volume 294

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Several Nordic and Baltic countries are forerunners in the digitalization of patient ehealth services and have since long implemented psychiatric records as parts of the ehealth services. There are country-specific differences in what clinical information is offered to patients concerning their online patient accessible psychiatric records. This study explores national differences in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Estonia in patient access to their psychiatric records. Data was collected through a socio-technical data collection template developed during a workshop series and then analyzed in a cross-country comparison focusing on items related to psychiatry records online. The results show that psychiatric records online are offered to patients in all four countries, and provide the same functionality and similar psychiatry information. Overall, the conclusion is that experiences of various functionalities should be scrutinized to promote transparency of psychiatric records as part of the national eHealth services to increase equality of care and patient empowerment.

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Funding Information: This work was supported by NordForsk through the funding to Nordic eHealth for Patients: Benchmarking and Developing for the Future (NORDeHEALTH), project number 100477. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and IOS Press.

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Bärkas, A, Hägglund, M, Moll, J, Cajander, A, Rexhepi, H, Hörhammer, I, Blease, C & Scandurra, I 2022, Patients' Access to Their Psychiatric Records-A Comparison of Four Countries. in B Seroussi, P Weber, F Dhombres, C Grouin, J-D Liebe, J-D Liebe, J-D Liebe, S Pelayo, A Pinna, B Rance, B Rance, L Sacchi, A Ugon, A Ugon, A Benis & P Gallos (eds), Challenges of Trustable AI and Added-Value on Health - Proceedings of MIE 2022. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol. 294, IOS Press, pp. 510-514, Medical Informatics Europe Conference, Nice, France, 27/05/2022. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220511