Research Article / Araştırma Makalesi Cite as/ Atıf: Çolaklar, H., Şeşen, Y. & Gültekin, V. (2020). Elektronik sağlık kayıtlarının doğal ve beşerî afetlerden korunması, Turkish Studies - Social, 15(8), 3439-3462. https://dx.doi.org/10.47356/TurkishStudies.43337 Received/Geliş: 03 May/Mayıs 2020 Checked by plagiarism software Accepted/Kabul: 20 December/Aralık 2020 Published/Yayın: 28 December/Aralık 2020 Copyright © INTAC LTD, Turkey CC BY-NC 4.0 Elektronik Sağlık Kayıtlarının Doğal ve Beşerî Afetlerden Korunması Protection of Electronic Health Records from Natural and Human Disasters Huriye Çolaklar * - Yasin Şeşen ** - Vedat Gültekin *** Abstract: It is the natural right of every human being to live a healthy life. Human beings have struggled to cure and/or protect themselves from all diseases they have encountered throughout history in order to be healthy and alive. The desire to be healthy has enabled various medical research to be carried out every semester and has been the trigger for different medical discoveries. In order to benefit from all clinical findings to follow up diseases to find new treatment methods and to maintain health status, health records and patient files must be preserved and archived under certain standards. Medical documentation is seen as an important tool in obtaining medical information. This study aims to analyze strategic studies that need to be done in order to protect medical electronic documents, patient data and health records produced in electronic environment today from all natural and human disasters. Accordingly, the article focuses on the strategies that need to be developed to protect electronic health records from various disasters and the methods of developing these strategies. In the article, the literature review method was used to obtain the relevant resources. Descriptive and document analysis, one of the qualitative analysis methods, was conducted on the general literature collected and application examples were examined. In addition, evaluation results are supported by various tables and numerical data. As a result of the study, it was determined that there are significant deficiencies in the protection of health records in Turkey from disasters and recommendations were made in order to correct these deficiencies and to provide better health services. Structured Abstract: Living a healthy life is one of the fundamental rights of every person. Since ancient times, mankind has made an effort to fight against diseases, to treat them and to protect themselves from diseases / outbreaks in order to be healthy and instinctively. The desire for a healthy life has enabled people to conduct medical research, to develop drugs, vaccines and new treatment methods. In order to benefit from clinical and laboratory findings, patient and disease information in the field of medicine and health sciences, it is very important that medical information be recorded and archived and accessible for reuse. For this reason, it is necessary to store, protect and archive in electronic form and / or other formal formats by considering * Dr. Öğr. Üyesi, Bartın Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Bilgi ve Belge Yönetimi Bölümü Asst. Prof. Dr., Bartın University Department of Information and Documentation Management 0000-0001-8480-058X hcolaklar@hotmail.com ** Öğr. Gör., Hitit Üniversitesi, Rektörlük Lecturer, Hitit University Rector 0000-0001-6896-0567 ysesen11@gmail.com *** Öğr. Gör., Ankara Üniversitesi, Sağlık Hizmetleri Meslek Yüksekokulu, Tıbbi Dokümantasyon ve Sekreterlik Programı Lecturer, Ankara University Health Services Vocational School Medical Documentation and Secretarial Program 0000-0003-3118-9822 vgultekin@ankara.edu.tr