To The Editor: There is an increasing need to incorporate the use of electronic medical records EMR in our healthcare delivery. The advancement in information technology and its impact in all sectors including healthcare has accelerated this need amidst the ever growing challenges facing healthcare today. These challenges include; reducing preventable errors, improving communication among healt...

As more healthcare institutions utilize electronic medical record software (EMR) to store patient records, the number of healthcare data breaches is also on the rise. In addition to the obvious threat to privacy, there are malicious ramifications to medical information cyber attacks, with medical records valued higher on the black market than credit card or Social Security Numbers (SSN). The st...

OBJECTIVE To develop a model of the life cycle of clinical documents from inception to use in a person's medical record, including workflow requirements from clinical practice, local policy, and regulation. DESIGN We propose a model for the life cycle of clinical documents as a framework for research on documentation within electronic medical record (EMR) systems. Our proposed model includes ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To estimate the usage of electronic medical records (EMRs) in ambulatory otolaryngology and to compare the usage trends between otolaryngologists and physicians in other specialties. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of data taken from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). METHODS The 2005 to 2010 NAMCS datasets were analyzed for whether storage of p...

The Electronic Medical Records system (EMR) is a method of storing information kept in a traditional medical record in an electronic database for distributed access to medical professionals. This paper focuses on how an EMR system can be designed to allow for the integration of an assisted living at home system and which together can allow for the automated data entry into the EMR from home med...

PURPOSE This qualitative study explored the experiences of primary health care providers and staff who had moved beyond the stage of implementing electronic medical records (EMRs) in their practices to using this technology on an on-going basis. METHODS A descriptive qualitative approach was used. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 19 participants. Data analysis was iterative and i...

PURPOSE The present study reports the current status of computerizing medical records in Japan. In 2001, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare formulated the Grand Design for the Development of Information Systems in the Healthcare and Medical Fields. The Grand Design stated a numerical target for "spreading the use of electronic medical records (EMR) in at least 60% of Japan's hospitals w...

Moving towards future patient-centered healthcare requires increasing health literacy [1] and encouraging patients to take a more active role in their own care. Physician-patient communication is a key factor influencing health literacy for patients. Poor health literacy can lead to poorer medical outcomes for patients [2-4]. Thus, an important design goal of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) an...

BACKGROUND It is common to find a high variability in the accuracy of heart failure (HF) diagnosis in electronic primary care medical records (EMR). Our aims were to ascertain (i) whether the prognosis of HF labelled patients whose ejection fraction (EF) was missing in their EMR differed from those that had it registered, and (ii) the causes contributing to the differences in the availability o...

Electronic medical records (EMR) all have privacy safeguards in place. Major healthcare institutions have taken steps to prevent employees from looking up information on patients whom they do not treat directly, however numerous potential intrusions into patient privacy are still possible. Centralization of medical records in the increasing number of multi-group practices distributes personal m...