or issue bogus certificates; hence their unpopularity. Medicine has always been a State subject in India since time immemorial, and it is difficult to understand the present-day policy of multiplying medical schools and institutions, without finding employment for the host of graduates turned out. and?at the same time?indirectly helping quacks through the agency of district boards and municipal...

QUALITY PROBLEM In low-income countries, medical record management is often lacking. We sought to evaluate the impact of an inexpensive business process re-engineering project on the accessibility and completeness of patient information and on physician satisfaction. DESIGN Pre-post intervention study during 2006-07, using time-motion studies, medical record audits and physician surveys. SE...

Work sampling measured nurse documentation time before and after the implementation of an electronic medical record on a medical-surgical nursing unit. Documentation was separated into subprocesses of admissions, discharges, and routine/daily documentations. Production rate of documentation time is defined and measured. The results indicate that there is no difference in documentation time betw...

BACKGROUND Previous studies identified individual or practice factors that influence practice-based physicians' electronic medical record (EMR) adoption. Less is known about the market factors that influence physicians' EMR adoption. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between environmental market characteristics and physicians' EMR adoption. METHODS The Health Tra...

background: health records serve several purposes and must be retained to meet those purposes. these varied purposes influence how long health records must be kept, or their retention period. the present study aimed to recognize laws and procedures related to retention of health records in selected countries and provide a proposed guideline for iran. methods: this was an applied, descriptive-co...

New medical record keeping obligations are implemented by the Medical Practitioners Act (2007), effective July 2009. This audit, comprising review of 347 medical entries in 257 charts on one day, investigated compliance with the Act together with the general standard of medical record keeping. The Medical Council requirement was absent all but 3 (0.9%) of entries; there was no unique identifier...

Given the many efforts currently under way to develop standards for electronic medical records, it is important to step back and reexamine the fundamental principles which should underlie a model of the electronic medical record. This paper presents an analysis based on the experience in developing the PEN & PAD prototype clinical workstation. The fundamental contention is that the requirements...