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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... plan for achieving widespread CPR implementation. Further, it identifies the key organizations that will need to play major roles if the plan is to succeed. The vision of the patient record of the future that emerged from the ...
... planning efforts before the study began (Grant No. 5909 HS055 2602). http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5306.html ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS—ORIGINAL EDITION xvii Acknowledgements—Original Edition The committee would like Copyright © National Academy of ...
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