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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... Association, and Drs. Astrid M. van Ginneken and Johan van der Lei have written extensively on CPRs. Six years has proven to be a long time in the world of health care. When the original report was released in 1991, the genetic ...
... Association, and other professional organizations are playing a major national role in the development of clinical practice guidelines. The CPR will be a boon to both these endeavors. The activities of several other groups also lend ...
... Association of Operating Room Nurses, Inc., Adventist Health System Sunbelt Health Care Corporation, Computer-based Patient Record Institute, Inc., American Health Information Management Association, Ernst & Young LLP, and Hewlett ...
... Association, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, BoozAllen and Hamilton, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Gerber Alley and Company, the John A. Hartford Foundation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals ...
... Association, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Booz-Allen and Hamilton, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Gerber Alley and Company, the John A. Hartford Foundation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals ...