The medical record

The new Aberdeen medical record.

The Hospitalist & the Electronic Medical Record

the Center for Medicare and Medi-caid Services (CMS) released full details of the proposed Electronic Health Record Incentive Program [1]. These proposed rules set initial requirements which hospitals and health care providers must meet in order to qualify for economic incentives under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Since the sixty day comment period ended on March 15, 2010,...

Medical Practitioners Act 2007: the increased medical record burden.

New medical record keeping obligations are implemented by the Medical Practitioners Act (2007), effective July 2009. This audit, comprising review of 347 medical entries in 257 charts on one day, investigated compliance with the Act together with the general standard of medical record keeping. The Medical Council requirement was absent all but 3 (0.9%) of entries; there was no unique identifier...

The medical record: confidentiality, access and disclosure.

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EMERSE: The Electronic Medical Record Search Engine

EMERSE (The Electronic Medical Record Search Engine) is an intuitive, powerful search engine for free-text documents in the electronic medical record. It offers multiple options for creating complex search queries yet has an interface that is easy enough to be used by those with minimal computer experience. EMERSE is ideal for retrospective chart reviews and data abstraction and may have potent...