Auto-authentication of patient records entries in paper-based environment - case study of General Hospital, Lagos Island Department:Health Information Management By: iamjahmeyou Project ID: 3394 Rating: (3.2) votes: 11 Price:₦4000 Get the Complete MaterialAbstractAuthentication is an attestation that something such as a medical record is genuine. The purpose of authentication is to show authorship and assign responsibility for an act, event, condition, opinion, or diagnosis (AHIMA, 2011). Every entry in the health record should be authenticated and traceable to the author of the entry. The Rules of Evidence indicate that the author of the entry is the only one who has knowledge of the entry. This is also known as Auto-authentication or Auto-attestation. Auto-attestation is the process by which an entry is implicitly signed (attested) through the user authentication process at sign-on. It is also the process by which a physician or other practitioner attests to an entry that he or she cannot or has not reviewed because it has not yet been transcribed or the electronic entry cannot be displayed (CMS, 2014). A system of auto-authentication in which a physician or other practitioner authenticates an entry that he or she cannot review, e.g., because it has not yet been transcribed, or the electronic entry cannot be displayed, is not consistent with these requirements. There must be a method of determining that the practitioner did, in fact, authenticate the entry after it was created. In addition, failure to disapprove an entry within a specific time period is not acceptable as authentication. The study used a descriptive methodology in which two hundred questionnaires were administered to respondents. It was only shown that only 6.5% of respondents have knowledge of auto-authentication but all respondents understand the meaning and importance of authentication. It is concluded that there is low knowledge of auto-authentication and the recommendation is that all hospitals should adopt the electronic health record system ...Preview Download Preview +Other Health Information Management project topics and materials you might be interested in»Analysis of filing system and consequences of misfiling»Impact of health information management in healthcare delivery»Evaluation of the problems and constraints facing health record keeping and professionals»Assessment of challenges of health information management practice in General Hospital Ilorin, Kwara State»Analysis of filing system and consequences of misfiling patients health records in University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Kwara state»A study into causes of misfiling among health information management professionals in health records department - case study of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Kwara state»Factors militating against effective documentation in health care delivery system in University of Benin Teaching Hospital Benin City, Edo state»Evaluation of confidentiality of patient health records among hospital staff»Evaluation of patient appointment system - a case study of university of Ilorin teaching hospital»Impact of electronic medical records on patients waiting time in health care delivery system in Federal Medical Center, Asaba, Delta state»Impact of health statistics in the health care delivery system at University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara State»Effect of lack of health information computerization in the primary health care system»The challenges of effective communication between health information officers and patients (case study of Federal Medical Centre, Nguru Yobe state)»Causes and consequences of breach of confidentiality of patient health information in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos state»Evaluation of the importance of health information management in primary health care