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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... Benefits Services Division, CNA Insurance Companies, Chicago, Illinois THOMAS Q. MORRIS, Professor of Clinical Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and Past President, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center ...
... benefits to be gained from their use. Recent experience has shown that access to data and information at the point of care and the ability to analyze data for management and research purposes improve the quality and reduce the costs of ...
... benefit from European experience; for example, the entire European community has a ubiquitous privacy law whereas the United States cannot seem to accomplish this important objective. They also report that there has been more activity ...
... benefit from them. The cost of capitalizing CPR systems remains a significant hurdle for individual institutions, and it ... benefits and complexities of CPR systems. An important issue emerges after reviewing the limited impact of the ...
... benefits of patient record automation. Several Institute of Medicine reports published over the last two years cite the need for improved patient data collection to support quality assurance, utilization management, and effectiveness ...