OBJECTIVE Patient access to their electronic health care record (EHR) and Web-based communication between patients and providers can potentially improve the quality of health care, but little is known about patients' attitudes toward this combined electronic access. The objective of our study was to evaluate patients' values and perceptions regarding Web-based communication with their primary c...

The healthcare system in the Indian subcontinent is plagued with numerous issues related to access, transfer, and storage of patient's medical records. lack infrastructure properly communicate track records between all key participants has allowed distribution counterfeit drugs, dependency on unsafe methods communication, trust patients providers. During global COVID-19 pandemic, need for a rob...

The Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Care Record Incentive Program was established to encourage widespread adoption of an electronic health record (EHR) by providing incentive payments for showing meaningful use (MU) of EHR systems. The MU requirements were first introduced in 2011. A second phase of requirements was released in 2014, and a third is expected in 2016. EHR adoption has pea...

BACKGROUND Developing a clinically relevant set of quality measures that can be effectively used by an electronic health record (EHR) is difficult. Whether it is achieving internal consensus on relevant priority quality measures, communicating to EHR vendors' whose programmers generally lack clinical contextual knowledge, or encouraging implementation of EHR that meaningfully impacts health out...

BACKGROUND Detection, monitoring and treatment of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are paramount to patient safety. The use of a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) system has the potential to address inadequacies in ADR documentation and to facilitate ADR reporting to health agencies. However, effective methods to maintain the quality of documented ADRs within an EHR have not been well s...

The date for healthcare organizations to implement an electronic health record (EHR) system is quickly approaching. As set forth in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, every healthcare provider must have an EHR implemented by 2015. Healthcare providers must also demonstrate that they are using the system according to meaningful use standards set fort...

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems represent an opportunity to improve the delivery of health care. However, low implementation rates inhibit the ability of EHR to fulfill the promise of the information systems. One possible reason why implementation rates remain low is the high degree of customization required by clinical workers to fit the information systems to the organization. This wor...

We examined the impact of implementing a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) system on ambulatory care use in an integrated health care delivery system with more than 225,000 members. Between 2004 and 2007, the annual age/sex-adjusted total office visit rate decreased 26.2 percent, the adjusted primary care office visit rate decreased 25.3 percent, and the adjusted specialty care offic...

The Electronic Health Record (EHR) charge is on across the country, with increasing investments in systems infrastructure, the adoption of standards and the integration of health information systems within regions and across sectors of care. In the near term, whether they are institutionor community-based, all nurses will need to use the various functional components of EHRs. Infoway has set a ...

The term electronic health record (EHR) refers to the complete set of information that resides in electronic form and is related to the past, present, and future health status or health care provided to a subject of care. The primary purpose of EHRs is the documentation, retrieval, transmission, linking, and processing of multimedia information to legitimate users for the delivery of knowledge ...