Electronic health records (EHRs) are both important and sensitive since they store crucial data that is routinely shared across various parties, such as clinics, pharmacies, medical practices. These files require increased safety confidentiality to prevent leakage or misuse by a third party. There have been instances where security breach in patient’s electronic has occurred. Blockchain technol...

Background: There is growing evidence that social and behavioral determinants of health (SBDH) play a substantial effect in wide range outcomes. Electronic records (EHRs) have been widely employed to conduct observational studies the age artificial intelligence (AI). However, there has little research into how make most SBDH information from EHRs. Methods: A systematic search was conducted six ...

In last few years heterogeneous healthcare information such as electronically patient data has gains a great attention especially from clinicians, researchers, health care organizations. The government of united stat of America had urged for widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records or Medical Records (EHRs) within the next decade shows the need for electronic patient data exchange. The ...

BACKGROUND With the emergence of the electronic health records (EHRs) as a pervasive healthcare information technology, new opportunities and challenges for use of clinical data for quality measurements arise with respect to data quality, data availability and comparability. The objective of this study is to test whether data extracted from electronic health records (EHRs) was of comparable qua...

In modern healthcare environments, a fundamental requirement for achieving continuity of care is the seamless access to distributed patient health records in an integrated and unified manner, directly at the point of care. However, Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain a significant amount of sensitive information, and allowing data to be accessible at many different sources increases concer...

Healthcare information is complex, distributed and non-structured in nature. Integration of information is important to retrieve patient history, for knowledge sharing and to formulate queries. Large scale adoption of electronic healthcare applications requires semantic interoperability. Interoperability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is important because patients have become mobile, treat...

Interoperability in eHealth systems is important for delivering quality healthcare and reducing healthcare costs. Some of the important use cases include coordinating the care of chronic patients by enabling the co-operation of many different eHealth systems such as Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRs), Personal Health Record Systems (PHRs) and wireless medical sensor devices; enabling secon...

The Taiwan government has been promoting Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to primary care physicians. How to extend EHRs adoption rate by measuring physicians' perspective of importance and performance of EHRs has become one of the critical issues for healthcare organizations. We conducted a comprehensive survey in 2010 in which a total of 1034 questionnaires which were distributed to primary c...

Introduction The NBS is an integrated disease surveillance system deployed in 22 public health jurisdictions to support receipt, investigation, analysis and reporting, and data exchange for state reportable conditions. The NBS is governed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state, local, and territorial users that make up the NBS Community. In the early 2000’s, electroni...

T here is an old saying: If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. I find this maxim coming to mind again and again the more I read about information technology being the supposed solution to the myriad problems facing health care. Electronic health records (EHRs) are probably the single most talked about piece of health information technology (HIT) today. EHRs have been s...