Checklists for Successful Specialty Electronic Medical Record Implementation

Critical Factors for Successful Electronic Health Record ( EHR ) Implementation

Since the 1970s, the healthcare industry has been moving from paper-based documents towards computer information systems in an effort to increase timely access to quality information, with the ultimate objective of wide dissemination and adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). EHRs are electronic collections of patient health information that are recorded by physicians, nurses and patient...

Change management - recommendations for successful electronic medical records implementation.

SUMMARY Change is difficult and managing change even more so. With the advent of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and the difficulty of its acceptance, understanding physician's attitudes and the psychology of change management is imperative. While many authors describe change management theories, one comes nearest to describing this particularly difficult transition. In 1969, Elizabeth Kübler...

Achieving Optimal Specialty Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Testing: Are Electronic Medical Record Order Sets Helpful?

Foundations for an electronic medical record.

Given the many efforts currently under way to develop standards for electronic medical records, it is important to step back and reexamine the fundamental principles which should underlie a model of the electronic medical record. This paper presents an analysis based on the experience in developing the PEN & PAD prototype clinical workstation. The fundamental contention is that the requirements...

Active Semantic Electronic Medical Record

The healthcare industry is rapidly advancing towards the widespread use of electronic medical records systems to manage the increasingly large amount of patient data and reduce medical errors. In addition to patient data there is a large amount of data describing procedures, treatments, diagnoses, drugs, insurance plans, coverage, formularies and the relationships between these data sets. While...