Electronic Health Records: Applications, Techniques and Challenges

Electronic Health Records: Applications, Techniques and Challenges

With the fast evolution of information technology, traditional healthcare is moving towards a more electronic stage. As a result, the e-Health term appears, and Electronic Health Records (EHRs) become a critical application of e-Health management systems. These computerized records have been widely used by clinicians, healthcare providers, patients, and health insurance companies for the purpos...

Electronic health records-driven phenotyping: challenges, recent advances, and perspectives.

With the completion of the Human Genome Project as well as recent advances in genomic science and comparative biological studies, a new era of individualized medicine is evolving where novel biomedical discoveries are leading to more effective prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of disease. Although altered phenotypes are one of the most reliable manifestations of altered gene functions, resea...

The adoption of electronic health records: benefits and challenges.

Challenges of Coordination using Electronic Health Records: a Genre Analysis

This paper explores how electronic health record (EHR) systems have introduced a new genre for physicians to use (a genre we refer to as check-list) that is used in addition to their traditional narrative genre as part of a single patient health record. Our analysis suggests that it is because the overlap between these two genres is created and used interdependently that breakdowns occur in the...

The challenges in making electronic health records accessible to patients

It is becoming increasingly apparent that there is a tension between growing consumer demands for access to information and a healthcare system that may not be prepared to meet these demands. Designing an effective solution for this problem will require a thorough understanding of the barriers that now stand in the way of giving patients electronic access to their health data. This paper review...