IMPLANTING AN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD CHIP INTO U.S. CITIZENS

The purpose assignment investigate safeguards apply ethical principles health care technology.

Imagine having all your medical records with you at all times, thus reducing the issues that arise of patient safety and identification when one visits a health facility. With the use of an Electronic Health Record (EHR), this would become a reality for every U.S. Citizen. The EHR is a collection of a patient's health information that is acquired over several visits to a health facility. It has all the patients' progress notes, medications, problems, laboratory data, past medical history and radiology reports. For this to be achieved, one would need to be implanted with a chip or a Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) that would contain their health information. When one visits a health facility, the health care providers would scan the chip and all the patient's health information...
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