Safeguarding Patient Medical History

Cryptography is the process of converting meaningful data into a scrambled code for transmission across any communication channel that can be ‘deciphered’ or converted back into the original data. The primary function of cryptography is to hide the original information so that it appears to be meaningless while on transit. It is such a vast topic that presents a set of three volumes totaling 1664 pages exclusively on cryptography. Cryptography involves applying some kind of algorithms to convert the data before transmission, and when the ‘encrypted’ data reaches the receivers, it needs to be ‘decrypted’ back to its original data for interpretation. The process of encryption followed by transmission and subsequent decryption.

Recognized by the UK parliament, electronic patient record (EPR) systems can benefit both patients and practitioners by improving clinical communication efficiency, reduce errors, and assist in diagnosis and treatment (Barron, 2007). The report describes National Care Record Service (NCRS) that creates two EPR systems, the national Summary Care Record (SCR) and local Detailed Care Records (DCRs). As their names suggest, the SCR contains general information for the entire UK, whereas DCR contains all-inclusive clinical information in a local context. Almost a year after the launch of the NCRS, presented a study on patients’ attitudes to the SCR, which found that the general public was unclear about the policies on shared .Health Space