BACKGROUND Record linkage techniques are widely used to enable health researchers to gain event based longitudinal information for entire populations. The task of record linkage is increasingly being undertaken by specialised linkage units (SLUs). In addition to the complexity of undertaking probabilistic record linkage, these units face additional technical challenges in providing record linka...

This paper describes the evaluation of a service-oriented prototype implementation. The prototype development aims to exploit the use of service-oriented concepts for achieving healthcare interoperability while it also attempts to move towards a virtual patient record paradigm. The proposed evaluation strategy investigates the adaptation of the DeLone and McLean model of information systems suc...

The effective use of electronic health records (EHRs) can improve the quality of health care services and reduce associated costs. Establishing interoperable EHR systems has been recognized as an important objective in many countries and regions. Here we propose a framework based on three guidelines-the HL7 v3 CDA R2, Basic Medical Data Sets of China (BDS), and SI-LOINC-as a solution for establ...

Objective: To develop a personal health record (PHR) that can be used in a number of electronic health care services and to evaluate its application in referral management. Design: A web-based PHR that can be used by patients when requesting referrals was developed. In addition to the information that is usually stored in a PHR (e.g., medical history, medications and allergies), patients can st...

OBJECTIVES To explore the integration of online patient Record Access within UK Primary Care, its perceived impacts on workload and service quality, and barriers to implementation. DESIGN Mixed format survey of clinicians, administrators and patients. Telephone interviews with non-users. SETTING Primary care centres within NHS England that had offered online record access for the preceding ...

As hospitals throughout Europe are striving exploit advantages of IT and network technologies, electronic medical records systems are starting to replace paper based archives. This paper suggests and describes an add-on service to electronic medical record systems that will help regular patients in getting insight to their diagnoses and medical record. The add-on service is based annotating pol...

The record industry is undergoing substantial change from Internet-enabled file sharing. There is a heated debate surrounding how record labels should react to file sharing. This paper provides a rigorous economic analysis to identify the profit-maximization behavior for record labels. Using two widely accepted economic models of vertical differentiation, where competing products are priced acc...