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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... Requirements and Technological Advances DONE. DETMER (Chair),* Professor of Surgery and Business Administration and Vice President for Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville MARION J. BALL, Associate Vice President for ...
... requirement to support the information management needs of physicians, other health professionals, and a variety of other legitimate users of aggregated patient information. It is this vision, as much as any other message, that the ...
... Requirements 46 Computer-Based Patient Record Technologies 48 Nontechnological Barriers 48 Recommendations 50 1 INTRODUCTION 52 The Study 53 Report Organization 56 The Patient Record 56 Information Management Challenges 63 Information ...
... Requirements The Future Patient Record 3 COMPUTER-BASED PATIENT RECORD TECHNOLOGIES Technological Building Blocks for CPR Systems Experience with CPR Systems An Overview of CPR Systems Clinician Interaction and Resistance Technological ...
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