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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... need for information technology appropriate for the task of sorting through all the information available, assessing the strength of the evidence, and bringing it to practitioners whenever they need it, particularly at the time they are ...
... needs of individuals raises new opportunities for systems developers to provide complicated information in an easily understood format. Moreover, integrated delivery systems may increasingly view customerbased personal health record ...
... need for CPRs, review developments in the United States since 1991, and provide insight into remaining challenges. In the second chapter, Drs. van Bemmel, van Ginneken, and van der Lei describe the state of CPRs in Europe. In so doing ...
... need to educate administrators and other people involved in allocating resources to and selecting CPR systems about both the ... needs to be done to advance CPRs? What would help to jumpstart this process and expedite progress toward the ...
... need to play major roles if the plan is to succeed. The vision of the patient record of the future that emerged from the ... needs of physicians, other health professionals, and a variety of other legitimate users of aggregated patient ...