Personal Electronic Health Records (EHR) have recently been published as one means to support patient empowerment and patient control over their personal health record. The functionality of such an EHR may vary from a simple web-based interface for interactive data entry and data review up to a much more powerful system additionally supporting electronic data/document communication between clin...

BACKGROUND Two years ago, the Diabetic Retinopathy (DRP) and Traumatology clinic of the Department of Ophthalmology and Optometrics at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria switched from paper-based to electronic health records. A customized electronic health record system (EHR-S) was implemented. OBJECTIVES To assess the completeness of information documented electronically compared with...

Students in a health informatics program benefit from hands-on experience with an electronic health record (EHR). This case study reviews and explains a process of bringing the EHR and relevant patient records to students in a classroom or instructional setting at a university. We analyze and evaluate multiple options for EHR systems in an instructional setting. Following the unsuccessful imple...

The usability of Electronic Health Record systems, while recognized as critical for successful adoption and meaningful use, has not historically received the same level of attention as other software features, functions, and technical requirements. In the Nigerian healthcare sector, it was observed that only few had adopted the use of electronic health record. The traditional method of keeping ...

Information Technology (IT) is considered as an important enabler towards achieving integrated health care. Consequently, Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, which serve as the foundation for integrated care across organizations, regions, or nations, have received much attention globally. However, many EHR systems have failed to be implemented successfully. The buy-in of different stakehold...

The purpose of this article is to describe the patient matching problems resulting from the Nationwide Health Information Network’s automated patient discovery specification and propose a more effective and secure approach for patient matching between health information organizations participating in a health information exchange. This proposed approach would allow the patient to match his or h...

BACKGROUND As health providers move towards higher levels of information technology (IT) integration, they become increasingly dependent on the availability of the electronic health record (EHR). Current solutions of individually managed storage by each healthcare provider focus on efforts to ensure data security, availability and redundancy. Such models, however, scale poorly to a future of a ...

Since the 1970s, the healthcare industry has been moving from paper-based documents towards computer information systems in an effort to increase timely access to quality information, with the ultimate objective of wide dissemination and adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). EHRs are electronic collections of patient health information that are recorded by physicians, nurses and patient...

Electronic health record (EHR) data can be extracted for calculating performance feedback, but users' perceptions of such feedback impact its effectiveness. Through qualitative analyses, we identified perspectives on barriers and facilitators to the perceived legitimacy of EHR-based performance feedback, in 11 community health centers (CHCs). Providers said such measures rarely accounted for CH...

Received Aug 15 th , 2013 Revised Oct 20 th , 2013 Accepted Nov 30 th , 2013 With the advent of the cloud computing and its associated challenges, building a secured electronic health record (EHR) in a cloud computing environment has attracted a lot of attention in both healthcare industry and academic community. Cloud computing concept is becoming a popular information technology (IT) infrastr...