An Interoperable Electronic Health Record System for Clinical Cardiology

Developing Interoperable Electronic Health Record Service in China

The effective use of electronic health records (EHRs) can improve the quality of health care services and reduce associated costs. Establishing interoperable EHR systems has been recognized as an important objective in many countries and regions. Here we propose a framework based on three guidelines-the HL7 v3 CDA R2, Basic Medical Data Sets of China (BDS), and SI-LOINC-as a solution for establ...

The Electronic Health Record System May Destroy the Empathy

Aims: The use of the electronic health record systems has been developed in the health system, but it is still not known whether empathy is created in the visit of the patient despite this system. Therefore, this study was designed with the purpose of comparing patients’ perceptions about physicians’ empathy after the patient viewed standardized and scripted video vignettes of two physicians on...

Why it's time to purchase an electronic health record system.

an electronic health record system (EHR) for years but figured that it would be too costly and disruptive to your practice to actually buy one. You suspected that it would slow you down and force you to interact more with a computer than with the patient in front of you. You assumed that EHRs made sense only for technophile types who didn’t mind typing or fiddling with programs, and you were ri...

How to select an electronic health record system.

Proposing an Intelligent Cloud-Based Electronic Health Record System

With the aging United States population, healthcare costs have considerably increased and are expected to keep rising in the foreseeable future. In this paper, the authors propose an intelligent cloud-based electronic health record (ICEHR) system that has the potential to reduce medical errors and improve patients’ quality of life, in addition to reducing costs and increasing the productivity o...