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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... individuals; however, such data are equally critical for research, to support public health activities, and to track the performance of health care providers—both individuals and institutions. Second, as people continue to become more ...
... individuals raises new opportunities for systems developers to provide complicated information in an easily understood ... individual institutions, and commercial systems have moved toward achieving the 12 attributes of CPRs outlined in ...
... individuals and organizations interested in achieving the potential of CPRs devote our time and financial resources? The two commentaries give readers an opportunity to reflect on these questions. In the first chapter of this edition ...
... individual institutions, and it is a serious policy issue that must be addressed. Finally, anecdotal evidence indicates that there are better educational opportunities for health care professionals to acquire the skills necessary to ...
... individual patients and populations and, concurrently, to reduce waste through continuous quality improvement. We ... individuals become embued with this sense of the possible, the reality will emerge. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5306 ...