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    "id": 594346,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Shaban",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 139,
        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "Thank you for giving me this opportunity, so that I can put my thoughts through on the issue of Health Records and Information Managers Bill. First and foremost, I would like to thank Hon. Neto for coming up with this Bill, although it has too many issues. We need to point out the issues. It is important for us to keep standards in this country. I just want to point out that, as far as this Bill is concerned on the regulation of the health professional, I am in agreement on the registration of technicians and officers. That is the only way we can take care of professionalism and, more so, health professionalism in this country in as far as medical records are concerned. But, having said that, I have a problem in understanding how those medical records officers are going to work as stand-alone-officers in the health sector. That is because those officers and technicians usually work either in an institution or under medical officers. Although they are professionals in their own line, they act more like support staff. That is because medical officers are guided by the Hippocratic Oath that they take on confidentiality, keeping information about their clientele who happen to be the patients and making sure that, that information is only transmitted in a way that does not hurt the patient or in a way that is required by the law. Having said that, I have a problem looking at health records professionals as people who can work as stand-alone and be able to give information which should actually be given by the medical or dental officers by right, and it cannot be given by supporting staff to those officers. As Hon. Neto was moving this Bill, he talked about digitizing information. It is very important for institutions to digitize information. However, are they the right officers to transmit this information to the next level if a patient has been referred? I do not think so. That is because it is only the medical officers who are supposed to give reports on what they have been doing with the patient and how they expect the patient to move on. However, the support of that medical officer in making sure that all the records were kept together is supposed to be a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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