ABC of Medical Computing: COMPUTERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE--II

ABC of medical computing. Computers in general practice--II.

Computerised appointment system. Computerised appointment systems offer great flexibility in making and checking appointments but have to be extremely well written to be more usable than the traditional appointment book at the reception desk. One strength of the book is that it readily allows the receptionist an overview of activity in the practice, whereas computerised systems often show just ...

Use of computers in medical practice.

[Computing in medical practice].

OBJECTIVES Currently, information technology is part of several aspects of our daily life. The objective of this paper is to analyze and discuss the use of information technology in both medical education and/or medical practice. SOURCES Information was gathered through non-systematic bibliographic review, including articles, official regulations, book chapters and annals. Direct search and s...

Computers and compassion in general practice

Half a century ago Feinstein did not see computers as a threat but as an opportunity. He wrote about computers as mere devices; tools that can help a clinician in providing care and compassion to his or her patients. He also pitied that there were few clinicians active in research for developing and regulating the clinical use of computers. Studies on information technology as a clinician ’ s d...

General practice computing in Scotland.

OBJECTIVE To investigate a method of assessing the extent of routine patient data held on computer by Scottish general practitioners. DESIGN An "electronic questionnaire" in the form of an interrogation questionnaire was used to extract a subset of data from practice computers running a standard software package (the general practice administrative system for Scotland, GPASS). The data were r...