While the digitization of medical data within electronic health records has been introduced in some areas, massive amounts of paper-based health records are still produced on a daily basis. This data has to be stored for decades due to legal reasons but is of no benefit for research organizations, as the unstructured medical data in paper-based health records cannot be efficiently used for clin...

OBJECTIVES To assess the overall impact of access to the electronic medical record (EMR) on anatomic pathology performance. METHODS We reviewed the results of all use of the EMR by 1 pathologist over an 18-month period. RESULTS Of the 10,107 cases (913 cytology and 9,194 surgical pathology) reviewed, the EMR (excluding anatomic pathology records) was accessed in 222 (2.2% of all cases, 6.5%...

Information and communication technology has developed very rapidly in various sectors including the health sector, one of which is electronic medical record (ERME). Electronic records have been used hospitals world as a substitute or complement to paper form. In Indonesia, improvements rme management begun be implemented several centers. Such complexity challenges for implementation RME, it ne...

PURPOSE The present study reports the current status of computerizing medical records in Japan. In 2001, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare formulated the Grand Design for the Development of Information Systems in the Healthcare and Medical Fields. The Grand Design stated a numerical target for "spreading the use of electronic medical records (EMR) in at least 60% of Japan's hospitals w...

Hurricane Katrina showed that the current methods for handling medical records are minimally resilient to large scale disasters. This research presents a preliminary model for measuring the resilience of medical records systems against public policy goals and uses the model to illuminate the current state of medical record resilience. From this analysis, three recommendations for how to make me...

Anthropology is now one of the inter-disciplinary scientific fields that is gaining much attention in forensic, socio-cultural, industrial and bio-medical applications. There is a need for a better awareness of some of the impacts--past and present, in the medical practice, of the records that were obtained by workers in this field in view of their proper applications, and future reference. Com...

Purpose: Having a clinical information system is a good solution for monitoring medical problems. This system is designed to improve the speed and accuracy of data management. The goal is to replace medical records with a clinical information system to support storing, processing and distributing data in all the sections of a healthcare center. The purpose of this research was to determine ...

The problem of assuring secure and confidential access and transfer of medical records in healthcare facilities can be partitioned into (a) secure storage and access of electronic records within a facility and (b) secure transfer of electronic records between facilities. To address the first issue, we propose a new tag-based data model for representation of electronic medical records along with...

AIMS AND METHODS To determine whether a programme of continuous medical record review of deaths, unexpected intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and admissions referred by medical and nursing staff for specific review, would provide a range of adverse events from which to gain insight into the healthcare system of a large paediatric referral hospital. A quality assurance programme was commence...