Integrating Incident Reporting into an Electronic Patient Record System
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Application of information technology: Integrating Incident Reporting into an Electronic Patient Record System
Developments in information technology offer new opportunities to design electronic patient record systems (EPR) which integrate a broad range of functions such as clinical decision support, order entry, or electronic alerts. It has been recently suggested that EPR could support new applications for disease surveillance and patient safety. We describe the integration of a voluntary incident rep...
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3.1. EPRS AND EHRS.................................................................................................................................... 3 3.2. IMPORTANCE OF PRIMARY CARE............................................................................................................ 3 3.3. LINKING EPRS .......................................................................................
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1067-5027,1527-974X
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.m2196