Electronic Medical Record Availability and Primary Care Depression Treatment
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Long-term care and the electronic medical record.
The article by Dr Marilyn Rantz and colleagues on the impact of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in nursing homes is timely as health information technology (HIT) diffuses into the long-term care setting. The authors point out that implementation of bedside EMR in the nursing facility setting is not cost neutral and that increased costs are attributable to ongoing hardware and software expen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Internal Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0884-8734,1525-1497
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-012-2001-0