Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the elements that health care personnel in Thailand believe are necessary for successful adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) systems. Design/methodology/approach Initial qualitative in-depth interviews with physicians to adapt key elements from the literature to the Thai context. The 12 elements identified included things related to ma...

In recent decades, information technology in healthcare, such as Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, is potential to improve service quality and cost efficiency of the hospital. The continuous use of EMR systems has generated a great amount of data. However, hospitals tend to use these data to report their operational efficiency rather than to understand their patients. Base on a dataset of...

One of the most difficult National Patient Safety Goals to master is to accurately and completely reconcile medications across the continuum of care. All healthcare providers can agree that reconciliation is valuable, but developing a process that will ensure this is being done at admission, transfer and discharge is difficult. Is there a provider role that should logically take ownership of th...