These bedside workstations provide patients with digital media and entertainment as well as giving clinicians secure and reliable bedside access to the patient’s electronic health record and health information technologies. Finally, they provide hospitals with a valuable revenue stream to offset the purchase of the bedside workstations themselves and possibly fund further health information tec...

BACKGROUND The literature on implementing Electronic Health Records (EHR) in hospitals is very diverse. The objective of this study is to create an overview of the existing literature on EHR implementation in hospitals and to identify generally applicable findings and lessons for implementers. METHODS A systematic literature review of empirical research on EHR implementation was conducted. Da...

Many countries are developing national strategies using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to implement health information infrastructure and electronic health records (EHR), into their medical systems. Efficiency, quality of care and medical error along with new opportunities presented by the technologies themselves have driven this process internationally. Many countries have h...

Due to ever increasing space restrictions, the Royal Hobart Hospital implemented a Digital Medical Record (DMR) in July 2006. The aims of the system were to allow improved access to all patient histories for authorised staff, reduce storage space issues and improve the ability of staff to access all hospital clinical information databases via a single electronic link (e.g. pathology, radiology)...

In 2005, Dr David Brailer, our first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, had a vision of widespread adoption of electronic health records connected through networks run by regional health-information organizations. An advisory panel recommended at that time that proactive fraud management functions be embedded in this emerging information infrastructure. This has not occurre...

Access to web technologies and the increased bandwidth and capacity of these systems has facilitated the development of personal electronic health records (PEHRs). This conference reports the key messages from the Friends of the National Library of Medicine (FNLM) meeting on PEHRs 'From Biomedical Research to People's Health' in May 2009. The conference provided a comprehensive overview of issu...

BACKGROUND Like other sectors, the healthcare sector has to deal with the issue of users' acceptance of IT. In healthcare, different factors affecting healthcare professionals' acceptance of software applications have been investigated. Unfortunately, inconsistent results have been found, maybe because the different studies focused on different IT and occupational groups. Consequently, more stu...

KEY FINDINGS In 2010, only 17% of residential care communities in the United States used electronic health records. Residential care communities that used electronic health records were more likely to be larger, not-for-profit, chain-affiliated, colocated with another care setting, and in a nonmetropolitan statistical area. The types of information most commonly tracked electronically by reside...

OpenMRS is an open-source, robust electronic health record (EHR) platform that is supported by a large global network and used in over forty countries. We explored what factors lead to successful implementation of OpenMRS in resource constrained settings. Data sources included in-person and telephone key informant interviews, focus groups and responses to an electronic survey from 10 sites in 7...

A Web-based electronic health record (EHR) system was compared with traditional paper-based documentation and vaccination tracking during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. In a cohort of 8,411 healthcare network employees, EHRs improved completeness of self-reported contraindication data and reduced medical discrepancies. Vaccination program quality and accuracy are enhanced by EHRs.