Ethical patient record keeping is essential to modern healthcare, ensuring safe, effective, and trustworthy care. Accurate documentation supports continuity, clinical decision-making, and legal accountability, while also carrying ethical importance by safeguarding sensitive information with honesty, confidentiality, and respect. Poor record keeping can decrease patient outcomes, create confusion, impact multidisciplinary collaboration, and create legal risk.
Managing records ethically protects patient privacy and autonomy while allowing patients access and control over their health data. With the growth of digital health technologies, new challenges such as data security, electronic informed consent, and cybersecurity have emerged. Breaches or cyberattacks can erode trust, discourage information sharing, and disrupt care delivery, highlighting the need to balance accessibility with strong safeguards.
Join our expert speaker panel to explore how you can effectively manage your patient records to ensure integrity and continue to build trust vital to patient-centred healthcare.
During this webinar, attendees will review the HPCSA Booklet 9: Guidelines on the keeping of patient health records where the pertinent South Africa laws and basic principles around ethical practices for maintaining patient health records are laid out. The webinar will offer insights into both paper and electronic record-based practices.
The audience will have an opportunity to engage with faculty who offer insights from a clinical, legal, medical malpractice insurance, cybersecurity, and medical practice setup and management perspective through short lectures, interactive case studies, a series of multiple choices questions and Q&A sessions.
This webinar will focus on specialist practices. Administrative staff working in these practices are welcome to join the discussion.
Seats are limited.
