MEDICAL BOOK-KEEPING.

Book-keeping

Books are my greatest weakness and collecting them and other printed material is something I have done all of my life. I still spend several hours a week wandering around in bookshops, and the reason I’m late for appointments in Cambridge is that I have a flat above a bookseller with a large stock of remaindered and second-hand books. My passion for the printed word began soon after I learnt to...

Standards in medical record keeping.

Medical records serve many functions but their primary purpose is to support patient care. The RCP Health Informatics Unit (HIU) has found variability in the quality of records and discharge summaries in England and Wales. There is currently a major drive to computerise medical records across the NHS, but without improvement in the quality of paper records the full benefits of computerisation a...

Text-book of Medical Treatment

Medical records and record-keeping standards.

The structure of medical records becomes ever more critical with the advent of electronic records. The Health Informatics Unit (HIU) of the Royal College of Physicians has two work streams in this area. The Records Standards programme is developing generic standards for all entries into medical notes and standards for the content of admission, handover and discharge records. The Information Lab...

Keeping Distributed Care Together: Medical Summaries Reconsidered

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 N. Boulus-Rødje et al. (eds.), ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19–23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20499-4_8 Abstract Summaries in the medical record have traditionally offered health professionals good cognitive support by guiding reading of the medical rec...