The process of scientific discovery is rapidly evolving. The funding climate has influenced a favorable shift in scientific discovery toward the use of existing resources such as the electronic health record. The electronic health record enables long-term outlooks on human health and disease, in conjunction with multidimensional phenotypes that include laboratory data, images, vital signs, and ...

Computer systems and communication technologies made a strong and influential presence in the different fields of medicine. The cornerstone of a functional medical information system is the Electronic Health Records (EHR) management system. Several electronic health records systems were implemented in different states with different clinical data structures that prevent data exchange between sy...

The purpose of this pilot project was to track the electronic health record documentation of pressure ulcers on a medical-surgical unit and compare the electronic health record with the written medical record.

Healthcare is an information intensive industry, yet Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) have been unable to infiltrate this sector successfully. With the growing trend towards a virtual health record, the healthcare sector is now trying to implement the electronic health record, which would contain all health and healthcare information relating to each patient. The aim of this pa...

We applied a model of usage categories of electronic health records for outpatient physicians to a large population of physicians, using an established electronic health record. This model categorizes physician users according to how extensively they adopt the various capabilities of electronic health records. We identified representative indicators from usage statistics for outpatient physicia...