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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... issues of medical care, research, and education. See page xv for a listing of the organizations that supported the original and revised reports. Library. of. Congress. Cataloging-in-Publication. Data. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5306.html ...
... issues and has grappled with the challenges of expanding the understanding of the pivotal role of CPRs in health care delivery and of eliminating key barriers to CPR diffusion. Toward that end, in November 1996, CPRI organized a CPR ...
... issue that must be addressed. Finally, anecdotal evidence indicates that there are better educational opportunities for health care professionals to acquire the skills necessary to develop and use CPRs. There is, however, an equally ...
... issues, and confronting financing and policy issues. Clearly, this most essential of all elements of modern health care—a robust CPR—has a growing body of advocates. The challenge is to coalesce these parties into a public-private ...
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