The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care, Revised EditionNational Academies Press, 1997 M10 14 - 256 pages Most industries have plunged into data automation, but health care organizations have lagged in moving patients' medical records from paper to computers. In its first edition, this book presented a blueprint for introducing the computer-based patient record (CPR). The revised edition adds new information to the original book. One section describes recent developments, including the creation of a computer-based patient record institute. An international chapter highlights what is new in this still-emerging technology. An expert committee explores the potential of machine-readable CPRs to improve diagnostic and care decisions, provide a database for policymaking, and much more, addressing these key questions:
The volume also explores such issues as privacy and confidentiality, costs, the need for training, legal barriers to CPRs, and other key topics. |
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... CPR systems developed by individual institutions, and commercial systems have moved toward achieving the 12 attributes of CPRs outlined in the original report. Plenty of room remains, however, to combine the depth of systems developed ...
... CPR systems for generalists compared to the United States, where the early focus of CPR development efforts was heavily titled toward the hospital environment. Not surprisingly, both chapters emphasize the need for collaboration to ...
... develop and use CPRs. There is, however, an equally important need to educate administrators and other people involved in allocating resources to and selecting CPR systems about both the benefits and complexities of CPR systems. An ...
... CPR development outlined in the commentary by Drs. Tang and Hammond are not just intractable, but virtually impossible to overcome, if pursued by the private sector alone. Moreover, crucial incremental efforts are more likely to succeed ...
... development and implementation of computer-based patient records (CPRs). Put simply, this Institute of Medicine committee believes that CPRs and CPR systems have a unique potential to improve the care of both individual patients and ...