Securing large amounts of electronic medical records stored in different forms and in many locations, while making availability to authorized users is considered as a great challenge. Maintaining protection and privacy of personal information is a strong motivation in the development of security policies. It is critical for health care organizations to access, analyze, and ensure security polic...

BACKGROUND Utilisation of the electronic medical record (EMR) is believed to facilitate timely access to patient information, enhance communication between care team members and further promote clinical decision support. OBJECTIVE To determine if pharmacist-generated electronic consults (e-consults) improve blood pressure control among patients with uncontrolled hypertension in a multisite he...

In the healthcare industry, the old paper-based record is becoming a thing of the past and more and more patient information is being transferred into the digital format, that is, Electronic Medical Record (EMR). It integrates heterogeneous information within the Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) stressing the need for augmented security, availability and access controls. We demonstrate our ...

Converting to an electronic medical record (EMR) has been the health care system's collective goal for decades. Hundreds of EMRs have been developed during the last 30 years, but the likelihood of a patient having a largely electronic medical record in the near future remains slim. Adoption has been slow, and the physician time required to enter data is still daunting. And related technologies,...

User workarounds are a growing problem in many complex system implementations including healthcare settings. Anecdotal evidence from the healthcare informatics as well as the information systems (IS) fields suggest that many system users are employing workarounds in order to bypass the system’s functionality. Yet, little theory exists on the topic. This study proposes a theoretical model to inv...

Current clinical data repositories primarily extract data from multiple administrative and electronic medical record (EMR) data resources (e.g., hospital and physician billing records) containing specific patient-level data including demographics, medications, laboratory results, diagnoses, and procedure codes. It overlooks the importance of EMR system-level data (e.g., medication alerts that a...

BACKGROUND The emerging adoption of the electronic medical record (EMR) in primary care enables clinicians and researchers to efficiently examine epidemiological trends in child health, including infant feeding practices. METHODS We completed a population-based retrospective cohort study of 8815 singleton infants born at term in Ontario, Canada, April 2002 to March 2013. Newborn records were ...

In this research we define the construct 'physician's perceived fit 'which refers to the fit between the EMR (Electronic Medical Record) system and the task of establishing effective communication with the patient during the medical encounter in primary care. This is the first stage of a study aimed at developing and examining a validated measurement instrument for this construct. Effective phy...

BACKGROUND Previous studies identified individual or practice factors that influence practice-based physicians' electronic medical record (EMR) adoption. Less is known about the market factors that influence physicians' EMR adoption. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between environmental market characteristics and physicians' EMR adoption. METHODS The Health Tra...