INSURANCE MEDICAL RECORDS.

Interview responses on health insurance compared with insurance records.

Electronic medical records

The importance of medical records in health care delivery has been recognised for a long time. Its relevance to patient care and health administration was documented by Florence Nightingale in 1873 a book entitled Notes on a Hospital. Health care is a continuous process in which data is progressively accumulated, therefore the record must function as a ‘pre-birth to post-death system that meets...

Problem orientated medical records.

Problem orientated medical records will accommodate and integrate information about minor and major problems, allow rapid updating of information and better communication between health agencies and primary care team members. They will allow colleagues to retrieve information and assess patient problems, enable better co-ordination to occur between patient investigation and treatment, and ratio...

Family Medical Insurance *

This unpretentious but most important book pleads for at reorganizatioil of the relations of the medical professon with their patients, and a reorganization of the medical profession itself. All who arc interested in the well-being of themselves and their fellow-men should read it and consider its proposals carefully. The fundamental postulates which underlie the argument are that the theory of...

Medical records, medical audit, and community hospitals.

A survey of community hospitals suggests a need for improving medical records and communications and introducing review procedures. A new and extended system based on an A4 size unit record is described. The benefits of a medical audit procedure in which all general practitioners and senior nurses participate are discussed.