Journal
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 161-166Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocac194
Keywords
reproductive rights; post-Roe; abortion; pregnancy; interoperability
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This article discusses the risks that arise from interoperability for patients and providers and suggests actions that institutions can take to mitigate these risks. Institutions should have policies that protect patient privacy and ensure they can receive safe and legal medical care.
On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion, resulting in wide variability in access from severe restrictions in many states and fewer restrictions in others. Healthcare institutions capture information about patients' pregnancy and abortion care and, due to interoperability, may share it in ways that expose their providers and patients to social stigma and potential legal jeopardy in states with severe restrictions. In this article, we describe sources of risk to patients and providers that arise from interoperability and specify actions that institutions can take to reduce that risk. Institutions have significant power to define their practices for how and where care is documented, how patients are identified, where data are sent or hosted, and how patients are counseled, and thus should protect patients' privacy and ability to receive medical care that is safe and legal where it is performed.
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