The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act mandates "meaningful use" of an electronic health record (EHR) to receive current financial incentives and to avoid future financial penalties. Surgeons' ongoing adoption of an EHR nationally will be influenced by the early experiences of institutions that have made the transition from paper to electronic records. We conducted a survey to query surgeon...

Creating electronic health records that support the uniquely complex and varied needs of healthcare presents formidable challenges. To address some of these challenges we created a new model for healthcare information systems, embodied in MedWISE,(2) a widget-based highly configurable electronic health record (EHR) platform. Founded on the idea that providing clinician users with greater contro...

A descriptive study of health information technology (HIT) vendors was conducted to identify which EMR/EHR vendors currently work or anticipate working with SNOMED CT, determine the prevalence of SNOMED CT integration in electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) products, identify the available and potential future applications for SNOMED CT in EMR/EHR systems, and lear...

OBJECTIVE Primary care clinicians are well-positioned to intervene in the obesity epidemic. We studied whether implementation of an obesity intake protocol and electronic health record (EHR) form to guide behavior modification would facilitate identification and management of adult obesity in a Federally Qualified Health Center serving low-income, Hispanic patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS In t...

Electronic Health Record (EHR) use is expected to quickly increase in the USA. It is the hope of the federal government and many hospitals that EHR use will not only increase, but also mature from basic applications such as EHR for results viewing (ERV) to more advanced applications such as Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE). Today, considerable heterogeneity exists among hospitals with r...

BACKGROUND The use of a fully functional electronic health record (EHR) system is linked to improved quality measures. However, almost half of ambulatory providers with an EHR do not use the full functionality. Attempts to encourage optimal use of EHRs must address barriers associated with the need to change medical practice. METHODS Our primary research question was, what are the fundamental...

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems have been under development for several years, and have been in operational use by individual practices and healthcare delivery institutions since at least 2008. The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains the Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database to collect voluntary and mandatory reports of adverse events involvin...

To cope with the challenges of Taiwan’s healthcare system, the Department of Health (DOH) has proposed a five-year National Healthcare Information Project (NHIP) to establish a nationwide infrastructure for electronic health record (EHR) and health information exchange. An interoperable EHR adoption project, as part of NHIP, setup among eleven medical centers in 2007. We conduct a study to asse...