Objective The purpose of this study was to review the literature on current challenges and propose solutions for the optimal utilization of the electronic health records (EHRs) in chiropractic practice. Methods A search was performed in the PubMed, Index of Chiropractic Literature, and Current Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature databases from November 2005 to February 2015. A combi...

In the recent years information technology has brought remarkable changes in various areas including health care services. The use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for maintaining and analyzing health care data online has set the clinical environment on the accelerating path of changes. These digitized health care records are form of Big Data, as they are voluminous, dynamic and heterogeneou...

The objective of this study is to answer the research question, "Are current information security technologies adequate for electronic health records (EHRs)?" In order to achieve this, the following matters have been addressed in this article: (i) What is information security in the context of EHRs? (ii) Why is information security important for EHRs? and (iii) What are the current technologies...

While the digitization of medical documents has greatly expanded during the past decade, health information retrieval has become a great challenge to address many issues in medical research. Information retrieval in electronic health records (EHRs) should also reduce the difficult tasks of manual information retrieval from records in paper format or computer. The aim of this article was to pres...

BACKGROUND Initiatives in the UK to enable patients to access their electronic health records (EHRs) are gathering momentum. All citizens of the European Union should have access to their records by 2015, a target that the UK has endorsed. OBJECTIVES To identify the ways in which patients used their access to their EHRs, what they sought to achieve, and the extent to which EHR access was rela...

Moving from paper records to electronic health records (EHRs) has been a challenge for many Alabama hospitals. Implementation of this innovative technology will assist in providing better patient care by allowing for and providing more accurate and available patient information. The purposes of this study were to assess 1. the status of implementation of EHRs among Alabama hospitals; 2. the fac...

In this paper technical issues are discussed related to the development and implementation of a remotely accessible portal that allows users to interact with a range of electronic health records (EHRs). The Portal (known as the UVic EHR Educational Portal) was designed to allow for the hosting of a range of types of EHRs, ranging from thick client systems to web-browser-based systems. The porta...

This article presents insights into the use of electronic health records (EHRs) by small physician practices participating in a CMS pay-for-performance demonstration. Site visits to four States reveal slow movement toward improved EHR use. Factors facilitating use of EHRs include customization of EHR products and being owned by a larger organization. Factors limiting use of EHRs include system ...

Methods of Using Electronic Health Records for Population-Level Surveillance of Coronary Heart Disease Risk in the Heart of New Ulm Project Although electronic health records (EHRs) were designed as individual-level documentation tools for patient-provider clinical interactions, some have advocated for their use in population-level health surveillance efforts. Limited research exists on this ut...

Fast and holistic access to the patients’ clinical record is a major requirement of modern medical decision support systems (DSS). While electronic health records (EHRs) have replaced the traditional paper-based records in most healthcare organization, the data entry into these systems remains largely manual. Speech recognition technology promises substitution of the more convenient speech-base...