Paper medical records still dominate most medical practices. A national survey estimates only 4 percent of physicians have fully functional electronic health records (EHRs) with an additional 13 percent having some basic EHR. 1 However, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) estimates that in 2005, between 17 and 24 percent of physicians in ambulatory care settings were using EHRs to some ex...

BACKGROUND Geocoding electronic health records (EHRs) provides novel insights for clinicians, but it is important to understand and address key issues, including privacy and protection of patient records, in order to realize potential benefits. METHODS This paper discusses the issues surrounding geocoding and illustrates potential benefits through 3 case studies of no-shows to clinical appoin...

The use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is becoming more prevalent in healthcare institutions world-wide. These digital records contain a wealth of information on patients’ health in the form of Natural Language text. The electronic format of the clinical notes has evident advantages in terms of storage and shareability, but also makes it easy to duplicate information from one document to a...

Electronic health information systems can reshape the practice of public health including public health surveillance, disease and injury investigation and control, decision making, quality assurance, and policy development. While these opportunities are potentially transformative, and the federal program for the Meaningful Use (MU) of electronic health records (EHRs) has included important publ...

There is a national focus on electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchange to improve quality, efficiency, and safety across healthcare settings. The purpose of this study is to describe pharmacists' views and practices about the adoption and use of EHRs and the sharing of health information by pharmacists in the state of Nebraska. A U.S. mail survey of all pharmacists holdin...

BACKGROUND The federal government is investing approximately $20 billion in electronic health records (EHRs), in part to address escalating health care costs. However, empirical evidence that provider use of EHRs decreases health care costs is limited. OBJECTIVE To determine any association between EHRs and health care utilization. METHODS We conducted a cohort study (2008-2009) in the Huds...

We outline the fundamental properties of a highly participatory rapid learning system that can be developed in part from meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). Future widespread adoption of EHRs will make increasing amounts of medical information available in computable form. Secured and trusted use of these data, beyond their original purpose of supporting the health care of indiv...

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) must be encrypted for patient privacy; however, an EHR is a challenge the administrator to categorize. In addition, EHRs are predictable and possible guessed, although they in encryption style. this work, we propose secure scheme support categorization of EHRs, according some keywords. regard predictability focused on guessing attacks from not only storage serve...

BACKGROUND Recent legislation in the US requires that all medical records become electronic over the next decade. In addition, ongoing developments in patient-oriented care, most notably with the advent of health social networking and personal health records, provide a plethora of new information sources for research. CONTENT Electronic health records (EHRs) show great potential for use in ob...