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The major shortcoming of most patient portals is their linkage to a single health organization. If a patient uses more than one organization for healthcare, the patient typically needs to log on to each organization's portal to access information. This results in a fragmented view of individual patient data. [3]
Access to care plays a role in patient adherence, whereby greater wait times to access care contributing to greater absenteeism. [2] The cost of prescription medication also plays a major role. [3] Compliance can be confused with concordance, which is the process by which a patient and clinician make decisions together about treatment. [4]
Quality of documentation process: the procedural issues of capturing client data such as nurse's signature and designation, date, chronological order, timeliness, regularity of documentation and concordance between documentation and reality. Quality of documentation content: refers to the message from data about a care process.
Providing patients with information is central to patient-centered health care and this has been shown to have some positive effects on health outcomes. [22] Providing patients with access to their health records including medical histories and test results via an electronic health record is a legal right in some parts of the world. [22]
In computer security, general access control includes identification, authorization, authentication, access approval, and audit.A more narrow definition of access control would cover only access approval, whereby the system makes a decision to grant or reject an access request from an already authenticated subject, based on what the subject is authorized to access.
Historically, access control models have included mandatory access control (MAC), discretionary access control (DAC), and more recently role-based access control (RBAC). These access control models are user-centric and do not take into account additional parameters such as resource information, the relationship between the user (the requesting ...
Concordance (publishing), a list of words used in a body of work, with their immediate contexts; Concordance (genetics), the presence of the same trait in both members of a pair of twins (or set of individuals) Concordance (medicine), involvement of patients in decision-making to improve patient compliance with medical advice
In genetics, concordance is the probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic. Concordance can be measured with concordance rates , reflecting the odds of one person having the trait if the other does.