Received Jun 4, 2013 Revised Jul 25, 2013 Accepted Aug 22, 2013 Although both the electronic health record (EHR) and the electronic medical record (EMR) store an individual’s computerized health information and the terminologies are often used interchangeably, there are some differences between them. Three primary approaches in Automated Identification Technology (AIT) are barcoding, radio freq...

This paper describes the implementation of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) which has been redesigned specifically for the purposes of teaching medical and other health professional students. Currently available EMR software is designed specifically for use in actual practice settings and not for the needs of students and educators. The authors identified many unique requirements of an EMR in...

reimbursement for healthcare has utilized a variety of payment mechanisms with varying degrees of effectiveness. whether these mechanisms are used singly or in combination, it is imperative that the resulting systems remunerate on the basis of the quantity, complexity, and quality of care provided. expanding the role of the electronic medical record (emr) to monitor provider practice, patient r...

Electronic Medical Record (EMR) has been introduced into healthcare organizations in order to incorporate better use of technology, to aid decision making and to facilitate searching for a medical solution. The EMR is an Information Technology (IT) tool supporting the examination, treatment and care of patients. Low adoption of the EMR persists despite the obvious benefits of centralized medica...

An Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system enables a physician to record patients’ health information, request reports from third partly health care providers and retrieve these reports when they are ready. Despite the numerous benefits of EMRs, several factors have inhibited their widespread adoption. An underappreciated but critical factor has been the proliferation of inferior user interfaces...

Setting: The COMPETE Study (Computerization of Medical Practices for the Enhancement of Therapeutic Effectiveness) is an electronic medical record (EMR) project based in a primary care setting in Southern Ontario, Canada. The Clinical Research database consists of data extracted from the EMR as described below in the Methods section. Interpretation of the data has proven challenging due to fact...

The US Government is mandating a transition from paperbased patient record systems to electronic medical record systems (EMR), as well as an adopting of the personal health record (PHR). This research seeks to employ nonclinical IT adoption models in a clinical setting to understand how the legal governances, incentives and penalties, and unremitting changes in requirements impact the adoption ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the patients' opinion on the usefulness of the electronic medical card (EMC) and continuity-of-care report in enhancing quality of care, and to assess the effects of the patient-entered data on the quality of data in the electronic medical record (EMR). DESIGN A structured survey assessed patients' opinion on the usefulness of the EMC and continuity-of-care report. The a...

Subsequent to earlier work investigating the slow adoption rate of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) technology, we investigated the influence of known antecedents of EMR adoption on post adoption success. Data collected from 388 physicians users suggests that ease of use of an EMR system is by far the most significant and substantive factor of enduring success regardless of physician age, gender...

Currently in healthcare organizations paper-based patient record management faces many challenges. Most countries are promoting the full implementation of electronic medical records in every hospital. Medical environments change frequently and dramatically, which makes full acceptance of electronic medical records (EMR) by physicians an important issue. This empirical study combines the theory ...