It's time for health record banking!

Sustains--direct access for the patient to the medical record over the Internet.

The basic idea of Sustains III is to emulate the Internet banking for Health Care. Instead of an "Internet Bank Account" the user has a "Health Care Account". The user logs in using a One Time Password which is sent to the user's mobile phone as an SMS, three seconds after the PIN code is entered. Thus personal information can be transferred both ways in a secure way, with acceptable privacy. T...

Why it's time to purchase an electronic health record system.

an electronic health record system (EHR) for years but figured that it would be too costly and disruptive to your practice to actually buy one. You suspected that it would slow you down and force you to interact more with a computer than with the patient in front of you. You assumed that EHRs made sense only for technophile types who didn’t mind typing or fiddling with programs, and you were ri...

The Health Record Banking imperative: A conceptual model

J. D. Gold M. J. Ball No unified, functioning system currently exists for the exchange of comprehensive health-care information across the wide spectrum of health-care networks. Regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and a national health information network (NHIN) have been proposed as vital building blocks in providing such a system, but these face many challenges, including deline...

In record time: diary of an EMR installation. Georgia pediatric practice discovers that not only is eight enough, it's the perfect number of weeks necessary for implementing an EMR.

The Effects Of Computerizing Banking Operations

In an evolving Nigerian banking industry, strategies are being adopted by the major players in order to achieve their long-term organizational goals-profitability and survival. In the light of this belief, much emphasis is being laid on the computerization of their banking operations. Within the last decade, the Nigerian banking industry has been at the forefront of computerization. This is wit...