PRONTUÁRIO ELETRÔNICO NA COVID-19

Objective: It aims to present the patient’s electronic medical record as a digital tool with great potential for structuring the construction of the individual’s clinical history and how it can help throughout the care process. This also refers to its use in the COVID-19 Pandemic, but for this it presents ethical, moral and legal problems that will be discussed. Methodology: bibliographic review or survey of the literature, which is a way to gain knowledge of the different scientific contributions and to provide elements for the construction of the study. Results: it was shown that the PED helps health professionals obtain information from patients quickly and safely in one place, facilitating decision-making and benefiting patients with better conduct. In COVID-19, the PEP served as a basis for exchanging information, to gather information for the construction of the best therapies aimed at the good of those infected Conclusion: the benefit of the PEP for patients and health professionals was clear, and that during the pandemic can help in the construction of the best conducts, however, for that there was a discussion of the ethical issues that involve obtaining confidential information from the medical records and the patients’ right to this information.