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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... important role in supplying data for computer-based population data bases. High-quality data are essential to the management of care for individuals; however, such data are equally critical for research, to support public health ...
... important objective. They also report that there has been more activity on CPR systems for generalists compared to the United States, where the early focus of CPR development efforts was heavily titled toward the hospital environment ...
... 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 important issue emerges after reviewing the limited ...
... important, more cost-effective health care system. (Pp. vi-vii) We hope that this report will continue to be a catalyst to encourage people to take advantage of the opportunity at hand. We must move from debate and discussion about the ...
... important, more cost-effective health care system. We hope that this report will be a catalyst to encourage you to join with us to address the opportunity at hand. Finally, on a personal note, the enthusiasm, involvement, and support of ...