E lectronic patient portals have received increasing interest with Meaningful Use criteria and the move toward patientcentered medical homes.1-4 Portals typically allow patients and physicians to send electronic messages to one another in a secure environment. Other functions might include renewing prescriptions, making appointments, and viewing portions of one’s own medical record. Despite pot...

Electronic medical records (EMR) have largely replaced hand-written patient files in healthcare. The growing pool of EMR data presents a significant resource in medical research, but the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates redacting medical records before performing any analysis on the same. This process complicates obtaining medical data and can remove muc...

As more healthcare institutions utilize electronic medical record software (EMR) to store patient records, the number of healthcare data breaches is also on the rise. In addition to the obvious threat to privacy, there are malicious ramifications to medical information cyber attacks, with medical records valued higher on the black market than credit card or Social Security Numbers (SSN). The st...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Physicians underdocument and undertreat obesity. Electronic medical records (EMR) reminders have improved other preventive services such as cancer screening and immunizations. We explored whether an EMR automatic calculation of body mass index (BMI) improved clinician documentation and treatment of overweight and obesity. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cross-se...

OBJECTIVE To develop a model to store information in an electronic medical record (EMR) for the management of transplant patients. The model for storing donor information must be designed to allow clinicians to access donor information from the transplant recipient's record and to allow donor data to be stored without needlessly proliferating new Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (...

To broadly examine the potential health and financial benefits of health information technology (HIT), this paper compares health care with the use of IT in other industries. It estimates potential savings and costs of widespread adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) systems, models important health and safety benefits, and concludes that effective EMR implementation and networking could ...

We report on how the use of electronic medical record (EMR) systems in an emergency department (ED) contributes to peripheral physician activities and in turn, how these peripheral activities can lead to challenges in the patient care process. Through a qualitative research study, we identify three prominent peripheral activities that affect the continuity of care: (1) transition between multip...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: PCMH: Patient Centered Medical Home; SGLT-2 Inhibitors: Sodium Glucose Cotransport-2 Inhibitors; T2DM: Type 2 Diabetes; A1c: Hemoglobin A1c; SBP: Systolic Blood Pressure; DBP: Diastolic Blood Pressure; Egfr: Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate; CDC: Centers For Disease Control; ADA: American Diabetes Association; AACE: American Acade...

Background : Electronic medical record had one of the big challenges in application information and communication technology hospitals. The definition electronic records varies, however, principle used a database to all medical, demographic data every event patient management hospitals clinics (Cassano, 2018). development knowledge is so fast, nurses will quickly be left behind if they do not t...

Growing and maintaining a simple and flexible EMR (Electronic Medical Record) becomes a complicated task in light of diverse and distributed legacy data representation, advancing technologies, changes in medical practice and procedure, and changes in data regulation. Utilizing several abstraction mechanisms can simplify application development and maintenance, and provide flexibility for data e...