PURPOSE Electronic medical records (EMRs) have become part of daily practice for many physicians. Attempts have been made to apply electronic search engine technology to speed EMR review. This was a prospective, observational study to compare the speed and clinical accuracy of a medical record search engine vs. manual review of the EMR. METHODS Three raters reviewed 49 cases in the EMR to scr...

Mining the free text of electronic medical records (EMR) using natural language processing (NLP) is an effective method of extracting information not always captured in administrative data. We sought to determine if concepts related to homelessness, a non-medical condition, were amenable to extraction from the EMR of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical records. As there were no off-the-shelf products...

This research was aimed on addressing patients’ perspective in medical field. A self-selection questionnaire was developed and distributed among patients at selected healthcare providers. Specifically we wanted to evaluate patients’ opinions in big cities. From the results we have found that participants in both environments (big cities v rural regions) exhibit similar attitudes towards the sec...

Leaders in health care are calling for the implementation of electronic medical records (EMR) systems to help alleviate high costs of care delivery, high error rates, and uneven access to care. However, many of these leaders seem to be overlooking unintended outcomes of EMR implementation. Specifically, they may be overlooking the critical role physician beliefs and relationships play in the us...

Chinese Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) contains a large number of complex medical free text which includes a variety of information, such as temporal information, patients' symptoms and laboratory data. However, as an important knowledge base, these unstructured text data in EMR are hard to process directly by computer to support further medical research. This paper proposes a novel text str...

OBJECTIVE To study the effect of electronic medical record (EMR) implementation on preventive services covered by Ontario's pay-for-performance program. DESIGN Prospective double-cohort study. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-seven community-based family physicians. SETTING Toronto, Ont. INTERVENTION Eighteen physicians implemented EMRs, while 9 physicians continued to use paper records. MAIN OUTC...

A Health Information System (HIS) is a broad, integrated and standalone information system, designed to manage administrative, financial and medical records within a hospital and/or among hospitals. One of the fundamental parts of this system is called Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). EMRs are computerized legal medical records produced in hospitals. These records can conform to different med...

BACKGROUND Error reduction, quality improvement and lowering of cost can all be achieved through electronic integration of healthcare providers. Proliferation of standard electronic health records/ electronic medical records (EHR/EMR) software is an essential precursor of this integration. Proliferation of EHR/EMR software has not occurred in the United States. OBJECTIVE To characterise users...

With the rapid growth of electronic medical records (EMR), there is an increasing need of automatically extract patterns or rules from EMR data with machine learning and data mining technqiues. In this work, we applied unsupervised statistical model, latent Dirichlet allocations (LDA), to cluster patient diagnoics groups from Rochester Epidemiology Projects (REP). The initial results show that ...

This paper describes the creation process of an electronic medical records (EMR) application in the Juan Canalejo University Hospital Complex (CHUJC). From the knowledge acquired through the observation of the traditional processes of managing the Patients medical records on paper a tool was developed which in principle was thought of to classify electronic documents associated to a patient and...