Historically, medical records have been main-tamed by individual physicians to record specific information concerning patients. This information was often understandable only to the writer. The data were of outstanding events. This was thought to be sufficient documentation for patient care. Records are now read by others than the individual physicians. Groups of physicians working together oft...

Health care costs represent a significant percentage of a country’s GDP. Implementing electronic medical records (EMR) systems are a popular solution to reducing costs, with the side benefit of providing better care. Unfortunately, 30% of EMR system implementations fail, often because physicians cannot use the EMRs efficiently. User experience problems, based on our experience at several clinic...

introduction: completing medical records plays an important role in educational research and health planning and decision making. materials and methods: through systematic sampling of the medical documents of the patients who were discharged from inpatient wards of two general hospitals in the first half of 1377. 370 medical documents were selected and examined. the data were collected by seven...

introduction: one of the common methods for scientific activity assessment is scientometrics. it has been made possible with citation databases like web of science (wos) and scopus. in this paper, we studied the scientific production rate of hamadan university of medical sciences during 11 years via scientometrics methods. methods: in a descriptive, cross-sectional study, data was collected by ...

The US Government is mandating a transition from paperbased patient record systems to electronic medical record systems (EMR), as well as an adopting of the personal health record (PHR). This research seeks to employ nonclinical IT adoption models in a clinical setting to understand how the legal governances, incentives and penalties, and unremitting changes in requirements impact the adoption ...

introduction: electronic medical records has of practically paved the way to centralize information without being worried about physical space. although iran, from technological point of view, is able to compete with developed countries, it has fallen because of medical records technology. in this study, hospital information systems in educational hospitals in tehran province were compared with...