The 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, also known as the HITECH Act, authorized incentive payments through the Medicare and Medicaid programs to increase physician adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems (1,2). To receive an EHR incentive payment, physicians must show that they are "meaningfully using" certified EHRs by meeting certain objectives...

Active duty military personnel, their families and veterans seek medical services from the Military Health Service, which partners with private care, or the Veterans Administration, respectively. Indeed, medical services for active duty personnel, who need medical services on deployment, is a readiness issue. Laws that govern the practice of medicine, licensing to practice medicine and the perm...

Evaluating clinician satisfaction with an electronic medical record (EMR) system is an important dimension to overall acceptance and use, yet project managers often lack the time and resources to formally assess user satisfaction and solicit feedback. This article describes the methods used to assess clinician satisfaction with an EMR and identify opportunities for improving its use at a 300-ph...

The selection of an enterprise-wide electronic medical record (EMR) by a medical center is a major undertaking that will define its future clinical processes for many years. The parameters that drive the selection include the clinical requirements, the financial needs of the medical center, the geographic setting, the need for outreach into the community, and an analysis of the existing and pre...

The electronic medical record (EMR) will constitute the core of a computerized health care system in the near future. The electronic storage of clinical information will create the potential for computer-based tools to help clinicians significantly enhance the quality of medical care and increase the efficiency of medical practice. These tools may include reminder systems that identify patients...

BACKGROUND The electronic medical record (EMR) is one of the most promising components of health information technology. However, the overall impact of EMR adoption on outcomes at US hospitals remains unknown. This study examined the relationship between basic EMR adoption and 30-day rehospitalization, 30-day mortality, inpatient mortality and length of stay. METHODS Our overall approach was ...

In 2011, a panel of primary healthcare (PHC) providers in Nova Scotia rated 19 of 35 selected Canadian Institute for Health Information (2006) clinical quality indicators (QIs) as "acceptable." In this study, the authors explored the feasibility of extracting electronic medical record (EMR) data required to create these PHC QI measures.

Efficient electronic medical record (EMR) storage and retrieval systems for treating the millions of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) patients in the developing world is largely an unsolved problem. One attempt at addressing this need is the Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) – a framework that provides a free and flexible EMR system for resource-constrained environments. Although OpenMRS is a ...

BACKGROUND The development and validation of automated electronic medical record (EMR) search strategies are important for establishing the timing of mechanical ventilation initiation in the intensive care unit (ICU).Thus, we sought to develop and validate an automated EMR search algorithm (strategy) for time zero, the moment of mechanical ventilation initiation in the critically ill patient. ...

many projects on developing electronic health record (ehr) systems have been carried out in many countries. the current study was conducted to review the published data on the utilization of open source ehr systems in different countries all over the world. using free text and keyword search techniques, six bibliographic databases were searched for related articles. the identified papers were s...