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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... Hospital, Boston DONALD M. BERWICK, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts MORRIS F. COLLEN,* Director Emeritus and Consultant, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program ...
... hospital, or integrated delivery system—to function successfully. Thus, CPRs are, and will continue to be, an essential technology for health care. Today there are several examples of quite robust hospital-based CPR systems developed by ...
... hospital environment. Not surprisingly, both chapters emphasize the need for collaboration to further refine CPRs. The commentaries also provide a sense of the impact of the recommendations in the original report. Briefly, varying ...
... Hospitals, and Science Applications International Corporation. In addition, the Health Care Financing Administration (Contract No. 500-90-0041), the Department of Veterans Affairs (Contract No. 101-C90014), and the Health Resources and ...
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