The good physician knows his patients through and through, and his knowledge is bought dearly. Time, sympathy, and understanding must be lavishly dispensed, but the reward is to be found in that personal bond which forms the greatest satisfaction of the practice of medicine. One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in ...

Introduction The use of healthcare delivery systems is very limited. Primarily in India public sector hospitals does not use any system for managing their health records to provide continued care to patient. The central and state governments are responsible for the provision of primary healthcare in the country. A spending of 1% of the GDP (effectively about Rs 1050 per capita) on public health...

OBJECTIVE Increasing patient demand for convenient access to their own healthcare data has led to more personal use of the Electronic Health Record (EHR). With "consumer empowerment" being an important issue of EHR, we are seeing a more "patient-centric" approach of EHR from countries around the world. Researchers have reported on issues in EHR sharing including concerns on privacy and security...

The dissemination of Electronic Health Record (EHR) data, beyond the originating healthcare institutions, can enable large-scale, low-cost medical studies that have the potential to improve public health. Thus, funding bodies, such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S., encourage or require the dissemination of EHR data, and a growing number of innovative medical investigations...

BACKGROUND The effectiveness of weight loss therapies is commonly measured using body mass index and other obesity-related variables. Although these data are often stored in electronic health records (EHRs) and potentially very accessible, few studies on obesity and weight loss have used data derived from EHRs. We developed processes for obtaining data from the EHR in order to construct a datab...

When I read the review article “Medical Malpractice Liability in the Age of Electronic Health Records” by Mangalmurti et al 1 , my first reaction was to think back to a famous quotation about the telephone: "This ’telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." (Western Union memo, 1876.) Just as the t...

Electronic patient record systems (EPRS) are doubtless a key component of every institutional healthcare information system (HCIS). With their capability of storing patient related data concerning patient related facts like problems, diagnoses, illness history etc. together with data concerning medical activities and their results like “Medical treatment planning by Dr. X: treatment plan” or “T...

Public health surveillance of oral health might benefit from increased access to and analysis of electronically available data including systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of outcome-specific data for use in public health action to improve oral health. This study aimed to develop and evaluate a new Health-oriented Electronic Oral Health Record (Health-EOHR) that ...