OBJECTIVES As a baseline study to aid in the development of proper policy, we investigated the current condition of unpreparedness of documents required when issuing copies of medical records and related factors. METHODS The study was comprised of 7,203 cases in which copies of medical records were issued from July 1st, 2007 through June 30th, 2008 to 5 tertiary referral hospitals. Data from ...

This paper describes the creation process of an electronic medical records (EMR) application in the Juan Canalejo University Hospital Complex (CHUJC). From the knowledge acquired through the observation of the traditional processes of managing the Patients medical records on paper a tool was developed which in principle was thought of to classify electronic documents associated to a patient and...

Commercial, non-profit and public organizations are accumulating huge amounts of electronically available text documents. Although composed of unstructured texts, documents contained in archives such as annual reports to shareholders, medical patient records and public announcements often share an inherent, though undocumented structure. In order to enable information integration of text collec...

In this paper we study a variation of the signature Ale access method for text and attribute retrieval. According to this method, the documents (or records) are stored sequentially in the “text flle”. Abstractions (“signatures”) of the documents (or records) are stored in the “signature Ale”. The latter serves as a Alter on retrieval: It helps discarding a large number of non-qualifying documen...

Record extraction from data-rich, unstructured, multiplerecord Web documents works well [8], but only if the text for each record can be located and isolated. Although some multiple-record Web documents present records as contiguous, delineated chunks of text (which can thus be located and isolated [9]), many do not. When some values of textual records are factored out, are split unnaturally ac...

Record extraction from data-rich, unstructured, multiplerecord Web documents works well [9], but only if the text for each record can be located and isolated. Although some multiple-record Web documents present records as contiguous, delineated chunks of text (which can thus be located and isolated [10]), many do not. When some values of textual records are factored out, are split unnaturally a...