BACKGROUND Little has been written about physician stress that may be associated with electronic medical records (EMR). OBJECTIVE We assessed relationships between the number of EMR functions, primary care work conditions, and physician satisfaction, stress and burnout. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS 379 primary care physicians and 92 managers at 92 clinics from New York City and the upper Midwest...

In the recent decades the importance of the information systems (IS) has been steadily growing. Nowadays most of the operations that imply complex manipulations with data and storage of large volumes of data are being automated through the use of various IS. One of the areas where the use of an integrated IS can be considered as a must is medicine. There are many different types of systems that...

This study empirically examines the association between hospital inefficiency and the decision to introduce electronic medical records (EMR) and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in a national sample of U.S. general hospitals in urban areas in 2006. The main research question is whether the presence of hospital cost inefficiency or other factors driving inefficiency in the production pr...

This article explores the challenges inherent in linking data from disparate sources-electronic medical records (EMR) and health insurer claims-and the probable benefits of doing so to evaluate several quality measures associated with diabetes. Using the business associate agreement provision of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, we were able to link health insurer claims ...

BACKGROUND Electronic medical records (EMR) are more used in university hospitals, but the use of EMR by medical students at the workplace is still a challenge, because the conflict of interest between medical accountability for hospitals and quality of medical education programs for students. Therefore, this study investigates the use of EMR from the perspective of medical school deans and stu...

The electronic medical record (EMR) system is one of the important components of healthcare policy in the more developed countries of the world. Implementing EMR not only reduces the associated management problems of paper medical records but also improves the repetition of laboratory tests and clinical observations, and consequently, improves the accuracy of medical decisions increasing the pa...

BACKGROUND Transitioning between Electronic Medical Records (EMR) can result in patient data being stranded in legacy systems with subsequent failure to provide appropriate patient care. Manual chart abstraction is labor intensive, error-prone, and difficult to institute for immunizations on a systems level in a timely fashion. OBJECTIVES We sought to transfer immunization data from two of ou...

The potential for Information Technology (IT) to enhance the healthcare provision has long been recognized. One application of IT in healthcare, Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems, has generated particular interest. Technical and structural barriers are often analyzed to understand EMR deployment. This study sought to examine cultural barriers to better explain the potential success and f...

Detailed data on type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients and treatment in clinical practice are scarce. The Nordic region offers unique opportunities for research on patient-level data from various complementary data sources, by availability of homogenous public healthcare systems with clinical information registered in electronic medical records (EMR) and mandatory national registers, and dat...

In the Metical sector doctors, patient and nurses need to have access to the medical records efficiently and in a secure manner. As information technology gets increasingly deployed in the medical sectors it becomes eminent that the medical records are stored electronically. Secure Electronic Medical Records (SEMR), which aims at providing a set of services which will provide secure and efficie...