Who will be authorized to access information in currentcare?
When a provider organization is registered as a currentcare user, they must agree to adhere to currentcares policies and procedures. One of currentcares policies is to implement a role-based permissions (a.k.a., role-based authorization) system at every provider organization. Role-based permission is a security technique that enables or disables options for accessing functions and/or information in a given electronic system depending on the users role in an organization (e.g., medical professional, clinical support staff, or clerical.) A defined set of roles are established for currentcare, encompassing a set of rights or permissions to indicate which system functions a user in that role may perform and what information users in that role may read, enter, change, update and/or delete through a computer terminal. As part of user registration with currentcare, the unique identifying information for each authorized user of currentcare will be associated with a role. When the individual us