KEY FINDINGS In 2013, 78% of office-based physicians used any type of electronic health record (EHR) system, up from 18% in 2001. In 2013, 48% of office-based physicians reported having a system that met the criteria for a basic system, up from 11% in 2006. The percentage of physicians with basic systems by state ranged from 21% in New Jersey to 83% in North Dakota. In 2013, 69% of office-based...

The aim of this investigation was to assess helpful and challenging aspects of electronic health information with respect to clinical workflow and identify a set of characteristics that support patient care processes. We conducted 20 semi-structured interviews at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center, with a fully implemented electronic health record (EHR), and elicited positive and negative exampl...

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 provides incentive payments to eligible hospitals and providers that demonstrate the meaningful use of a certified electronic health record (EHR) system . This report describes the adoption of EHRs in hospital emergency departments (EDs) and outpatient departments (OPDs) from 2006 through 2011 using the Nati...

In the United States, the transition from traditional paperbased healthcare records to electronic healthcare record (EHR) systems is being promoted aggressively. While EHR systems offer a number of benefits, they will introduce new security and privacy concerns. A significant fraction of such threats, at least in part, arise due to actions of insiders of healthcare organizations, either acciden...

INTRODUCTION Patient bill of rights (PBR) calls for equal rights to access health services for all patients. It makes a foundation for preserving good relationships between patients, doctors and other healthcare staffs. Third Edition of national PBR was published in Iran in 2009. On the other hand, developing national wide Electronic Health Records (EHR) is now one of the strategic goals of Ira...

BACKGROUND The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) allocated $19.2 billion to incentivize adoption of the electronic health record (EHR). Since 2009, Meaningful Use Criteria have dominated information technology (IT) strategy. Health care organizations have struggled to meet expectations and avoid penalties to reimbursements from the Center for Medicare a...

The electronic health record (EHR) requires the use of standardized nursing languages such as NANDA, NOC, and NIC. Helping nurses use these languages for an EHR requires different educational strategies in 3 domains: intellectual, interpersonal, and technical. The author explains the rationale for changes in educational methods, expectations that educators and managers should set for students a...

An investigationwas undertakenof the mechanismof a previouslyreportedcross-resistancebetweenvincristine (VCR) and daunorubicin(DNR) in Ehrlichascites tumor cells. No significantdifferencewas demonstratedfor the time course of [3H]VCRuptake in cells resistantto VCR (EHR 2/VCR+) and in cells resistant to DNR (EHR 2/ DNR+), whereaswild-typecellsaccumulatednearly6-fold more drug at steady state. Th...