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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... (CPRI), Dr. Jan H. van Bemmel edits the annual Yearbook of Medical Informatics for the International Medical Informatics Association, and Drs. Astrid M. van Ginneken and Johan van der Lei have written extensively on CPRs. Six years has ...
... CPRI has been a focal point for CPR issues and has grappled with the challenges of expanding the understanding of the pivotal role of CPRs in health care delivery and of eliminating key barriers to CPR diffusion. Toward that end, in ...
... CPRI, public and private support of research and development, federal laws related to CPRs, and collaboration among various public and private groups to explore CPR reimbursement mechanisms. As Drs. Tang and Hammond report, individual ...
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