Aware of the potential benefits of health information technology (health IT), many early adopting health systems have leveraged electronic health records (EHRs) for far more than point-of-care documentation. Many rely on these electronic data to conduct quality assurance, quality improvement (QI) and reporting; surveillance; operations research; and clinical and health services research. Howeve...

Electronic information technology standards facilitate high-quality, uniform collection of data for improved delivery and measurement of health care services. Electronic information standards also aid information exchange between secure systems that link health care and public health for better coordination of patient care and better-informed population health improvement activities. We develop...

Electronic health service on roads is an important issue in next generation electronic health service. Innovative health service systems are needed to provide and support individualized electronic health service for medical needs on roads. In this paper, we integrate a novel, secure and privacy preserving wireless electronic health system based on the concept and framework of NOTICE [WO07](a se...

Electronic personal health record systems (PHRs) support patient centered healthcare by making medical records and other relevant information accessible to patients, thus assisting patients in health self-management. We reviewed the literature on PHRs including design, functionality, implementation, applications, outcomes, and benefits. We found that, because primary care physicians play a key ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the functional capabilities being offered by commercial ambulatory electronic prescribing systems with a set of expert panel recommendations. DESIGN A descriptive field study of ten commercially available ambulatory electronic prescribing systems, each of which had established a significant market presence. Data were collected from vendors by telephone interview and at si...

background: conventional health, safety and environment (hse) are a widely used approach to enhance availability and efficiency of complex systems. the integrated hsee system is defined however as integration of conventional hse with ergonomics approach. the presented hsee system introduces a unique, effective and systemic mechanism, which integrates the structure of the human and organizationa...