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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... integrated delivery systems means that those organizations need a way of managing their services. And, of course, citizens and other purchasers need better tools for assessing the performance of health care providers as well as for ...
... integrated delivery systems may increasingly view customerbased personal health record systems as a means of attracting new members, streamlining communication with patients, and diagnosing and monitoring patient conditions remotely and ...
... integrating various systems), ensuring the availability of enough people with the right skills, addressing organizational culture and change issues, and confronting financing and policy issues. Clearly, this most essential of all ...
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