TY - CHAP
T1 - Dignified Ageing in Place Using Electronic Health Records as a Backbone
T2 - A Medico-Legal Perspective
AU - Tong, Kar-wai
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Population ageing has become a global issue and triggered off societies to make new plans and tactics to face challenges arising from the phenomenon. Among various initiatives, electronic health records play an important role to help older persons to live in communities in a dignified manner. In this chapter, the author discusses briefly dignity in general, dignity in healthcare, and dignity of older persons. The author also examines the roles of and the legal risks inherent in electronic health records as a fundamental element of telehealth in facilitating dignified ageing in place, with an attempt to share some regional and international references from the medico-legal perspective with healthcare professionals and institutes.
AB - Population ageing has become a global issue and triggered off societies to make new plans and tactics to face challenges arising from the phenomenon. Among various initiatives, electronic health records play an important role to help older persons to live in communities in a dignified manner. In this chapter, the author discusses briefly dignity in general, dignity in healthcare, and dignity of older persons. The author also examines the roles of and the legal risks inherent in electronic health records as a fundamental element of telehealth in facilitating dignified ageing in place, with an attempt to share some regional and international references from the medico-legal perspective with healthcare professionals and institutes.
KW - Dignified ageing in place
KW - Telehealth
KW - Electronic health records
KW - Medico-legal risks
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-19-3061-4_9
DO - 10.1007/978-981-19-3061-4_9
M3 - RGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)
SN - 978-981-19-3060-7
T3 - Quality of Life in Asia
SP - 117
EP - 136
BT - Ageing with Dignity in Hong Kong and Asia
A2 - Law, Vincent Tin Sing
A2 - Fong, Ben Yuk Fai
PB - Springer
CY - Singapore
ER -