Techniques that enable information recorded during a presentation to be accessed or retrieved using a handout printed for the presentation. A user can select one or more items, such as slides, printed on the handout and access portions of the recorded information when the user-selected items were presented or displayed. Different types of information may be accessed. Different actions may also ...

Currently, developers of decision-support systems try to integrate these systems with the electronic medical record. The drawback is a limited amount of recorded medical data. System developers who face the choice between designing an integrated 'non-inquisitive' system and an integrated 'inquisitive' system need insight into the availability of information that is being missed by the support s...

Drug and poison information centers have a critical role in fulfillment of rational drug use programs. The Loghman-Hakim Drug and Poison Information Center (LHDPIC) has been established in 2006. The main mission of this center is to provide accurate, unbiased and up-to-date information on medications and poisons for the health care team and the public. This center has received more than 9000 te...

  Background: Personal Information Management (PIM) refers to the tools and activities to save and retrieve personal information for future uses. This study examined the PIM activities of faculty members of Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) regarding their preferred PIM tools and four aspects of acquiring, organizing, storing and retrieving personal information.   Methods : The qualita...

Inpatient medical notes often fail to record important details of patient history and findings on clinical examination. To overcome problems with content and legibility of notes we introduced preprinted notes for the admission of children to this hospital. The quality of the information recorded for 100 children whose admissions were clerked with the preprinted notes was compared with that reco...