UK Warns Against Printing Out EHRs For Clinical Trial Monitors

MHRA Has Confidentiality Concerns, Offers Short-Term Fix

New UK guidance explains how clinical trial sponsors and investigator sites can ensure that trial monitors securely process data in electronic health record systems that do not have a restricted access functionality.

Doctor to explain to the patient while checking documents and computer
Taking printouts from the EHR system is not appropriate • Source: Shutterstock

The UK medicines regulator has criticized the practice at some clinical trial sites of printing out electronic health records (EHRs) to support their review and verification by trial monitors as part of source data verification activities.

Printing out EHRs “risks the loss of some or all of the data should it need to be moved within...

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