Quality assurance and computer-based patient records.

The Confidentiality of Medical Quality Assurance Records

Development and quality assurance of computer-based assessment batteries.

The purpose of this article is to outline critical elements in the development and quality assurance (QA) assessment of a computer-based assessment battery (CAB). The first section of the article provides an overview of the life cycle of a representative CAB, typical evolutionary stages, and many of the essential considerations for designing and developing a CAB. The second section of the artic...

ActiveGuidelines: integrating Web-based guidelines with computer-based patient records

Use of the World Wide Web provides an efficient means to disseminate guidelines, but integrating them into the workflow at the point of care remains elusive. We developed a method, ActiveGuidelines (AGL), of integrating web-based guidelines with computer-based patient record (CPR) systems. An ActiveGuideline is an HTML document containing special tags that are interpreted by a CPR as actions (e...

Computer-based safety surveillance and patient-centered health records

There is much debate on which types of computer-based systems have the most impact in healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Safety surveillance systems, which have been around for several years, are probably at the top of the list. These provider-oriented clinical decision support systems allow healthcare providers to monitor the safety of medications and other interventions that are critic...

Expert Systems, Security and Quality Assurance: Implications of Patient Records as Data-Space

The concept of data-space is fruitful in trying to understand the ethical rights and duties that surround the treatment of patient records. However, it also provides a solution to three apparently unconnected problems: the construction of expert diagnostic systems, the development of an internal security element within the sphere of permitted data-access for health care professionals, and the d...