For many years the electronic medical record has been the holy grail of hospital system integration. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent in attempts to develop effective electronic medical records (EMR) to provide clinical care for patients. The advantages of an EMR are listed as reducing error, streamlining care, and allowing multiple people to provide simultaneous care. Unfortunat...

Hypothetical: A medical malpractice lawsuit alleges a failure to diagnose the aortic dissection that caused the sudden death of the patient. Two days before his death, the patient had visited a medical clinic, where the patient had shown normal vital signs except for a slight fever, and a mild shortness of breath. Based on the initial clinical presentation, the tentative diagnosis was pericardi...

PURPOSE Electronic health record systems provide great opportunity to study most diseases. Objective of this study was to determine whether electronic medical records (EMR) in ophthalmology contribute to management of rare eye diseases, isolated or in syndromes. Study was designed to identify and collect patients' data with ophthalmology-specific EMR. METHODS Ophthalmology-specific EMR softwa...

While physician informational needs have been examined in the literature, rarely do the findings have the specificity required to drive development of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) features. Using Delphi methodology, a comprehensive list of desirable, ranked EMR features was developed for physician residency practices. The identified EMR features and implications for system development are ...

Currently in healthcare organizations paper-based patient record management faces many challenges. Most countries are promoting the full implementation of electronic medical records in every hospital. Medical environments change frequently and dramatically, which makes full acceptance of electronic medical records (EMR) by physicians an important issue. This empirical study combines the theory ...

Motivation – Electronic medical records (EMR) have been hailed for their potential benefits. As EMR technology begins to be implemented, this research investigates its impact on emergency medicine. Research approach – 150 hours of naturalistic observations of emergency physicians in two Midwestern hospitals were performed. Findings – Results suggest that for EMR benefits to emerge, results must...

Oncology outcomes research could benefit from the use of an oncology-specific electronic medical record (EMR) network. The benefits and challenges of using EMR in general health research have been investigated; however, the utility of EMR for oncology outcomes research has not been explored. Compared to current available oncology databases and registries, an oncology-specific EMR could provide ...

The aim of this article is to collect and compare opinions medical personnel on electronic records (EMR) systems used in health care facilities Poland, both outpatient (i.e. urgent care) inpatient clinics hospitals).

OBJECTIVES To document the presence and functioning of different practice systems in a small sample of medical groups in Minnesota and to examine the relationship between the presence of practice systems and prior adoption of an electronic medical record (EMR). STUDY DESIGN Descriptive study of the frequency of practice systems in 11 medical groups. METHODS We recruited 11 medical groups fo...