Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in the Oncology Clinic: How Clinician Interaction With EHRs Can Improve Communication With the Patient

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in the oncology clinic: how clinician interaction with EHRs can improve communication with the patient.

Interacting with computers in the clinic can feel like a burden, or even a barrier to important interpersonal aspects of patient care. Similar barriers can be posed by other electronic devices used in patient care, such as tablets, smartphones, or PDAs. Despite the expectation that such devices might improve the quality of care, electronic health record (EHR) systems in particular generally hav...

Barriers to implement Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

INTRODUCTION During the past 20 years, with huge advances in information technology and particularly in the areas of health, various forms of electronic records have been studied, analyzed, designed or implemented. An Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is defined as digitally stored healthcare information throughout an individual's lifetime with the purpose of supporting continuity of care, educa...

Barriers for Adopting Electronic Health Records (EHRs) by Physicians

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED. INTRODUCTION Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are computerized medical information systems that collect, store and display patient information. They are means to create legible and organized recordings and to access clinical information about individual patients. Despite of the positive effects of the EMRs usage in medical practices, the adoption rate of s...

Strategies for Primary Care Stakeholders to Improve Electronic Health Records (EHRs).

The use of electronic health records (EHRs) and the vendors that develop them have increased exponentially in recent years. While there continues to emerge literature on the challenges EHRs have created related to primary care provider satisfaction and workflow, there is sparse literature on the perspective of the EHR vendors themselves. We examined the role of EHR vendors in optimizing primary...

Implementing EHRs in community oncology practices.