Surveys Aimed at General Citizens of the US and Japan About Their Attitudes Toward Electronic Medical Data Handling - 10 Years Change, Before and After Covid-19.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To clarify the views of the general population of two countries (US and Japan), concerning handling of their medical records electronically, disclosure of the name of disease, secondary usage of information, compiling their records into a lifelong medical record, access to their medical records on the internet, questionnaire filling for delicate history, comprehensive consent for laboratory results, chart and genome profile, and AI use in diagnosis and explanation.

Authors

  • Michio Kimura
    Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Hamamatsu University, Hamamatsu, Japan.
  • Hiroshi Watanabe
    Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu, 431-3192, Japan.