Purpose Paper clinical notes (PCN) have been an enduring tool in clinical medicine, but are slowly being replaced by electronic medical records (EMR) in a nationwide effort to improve clinic efficiency, to enhance interdepartmental communication, and to minimize medical errors. Our healthcare center utilizes a transitional EMR that requires outpatient clinic physicians to document patient visit...

The TREC 2012 Medical Records Track task involves the identification of electronic medical records (EMRs) that are relevant to a set of search topics. Atigeo has a Computer-Aided Coding (CAC) product that analyzes electronic medical records (EMRs) and recommends ICD-9 codes that represent the diagnoses and procedures described in those medical records. We have developed a suite of natural langu...

Electronic Medical Records (EMR) provide increased productivity and convenience for patients, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians and other medical professionals. The added accessibility to patient information introduces a multitude of security risks at various levels. The communication infrastructure may be breached by intruders from disparate countries. Loosely protected data entry ...

Objective Electronic medical records (EMR) are increasingly utilized in clinical practice and research, allowing for more efficient availability of rich patient records. However, most use of EMR is limited to coded, structured, administrative data, while the vast majority of patient information (e.g. disease subtype, severity, medical device usage, etc.) is tied up in narrative clinical notes. ...

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...

We describe a prototype system to capture and interpret data in a perioperative environment in order to construct an Electronic Medical Encounter Record (EMR). The EMR records and correlates significant medical data and video streams with an inferred higher-level event model of the surgery. Information from Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags provides basic context information including ...

This paper seeks to evaluate whether the adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) leads to upcoding for hospitalized Medicare patients, defined as categorizing a condition as more serious than justified in order to inflate bills, or more accurate coding. We use a triple difference: (1) between EMR and non-EMR hospitals; (2) before and after the 2007 Medicare payment reform, which made obta...

Electronic medical records have the potential to reduce medical errors and improve clinical outcomes in hospitals. To date, studies measuring the impact of EMR systems on performance outcomes have shown mixed results. A number of clinical studies have called for deeper exploration into the factors that may play a role in determining the success or failure of EMR systems. This study explores the...

BACKGROUND Nurses in primary healthcare record data for the monitoring and evaluation of diseases and services. Information and communications technology (ICT) can improve quality in healthcare by providing quality medical records. However, worldwide, the majority of health ICT projects have failed. Individual user acceptance is a crucial factor in successful ICT implementation. OBJECTIVES Th...

Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are established means for institutions to improve patient outcomes while reducing the emergence of resistant bacteria. With the increased adoption and evolution of electronic medical records (EMRs), there is a need to assimilate the tools of ASPs into EMRs, using decision support and feedback. Third-party software vendors provide the mainstay for integr...