Definition, structure, content, use and impacts of electronic health records: a review of the research literature.

Despite a consensus that the use of health information technology should lead to more efficient, safer, and higher-quality care, there are no reliable estimates of the prevalence of adoption of electronic health records in U.S. hospitals.

E-mail is a communication network operating on a computer network that supports social networks. It combines locational flexibility, rapid transmission to multiple others across time and space, and the ability to store and process information. This…

Electronic Health Records hold the potential for great improvements in healthcare provision yet take-up in North America remains slow behind Australia and Europe. We believe that one of the reasons for this is the lack of attention to privacy…

To achieve meaningful use in the first phase of EHR roll-out, the ARRA outlined three broad categories of activities that must be engaged in. First, physician offices must use a certified EHR in a meaningful manner, such as e-prescribing. Second,…

North Shore Hospital System on Long Island in New York recently announced that it will pay an incentive of up to $40,000 to each physician in its network who adopts its electronic health record (EHR) paying 50% of the cost to physicians who in-…

Medical decisions are usually evaluated by checking their compliance with guidelines. We propose an approach to determine to which extent and how decisions are individualized to patients particular needs, beyond or against guidelines. For this…

We systematically reviewed PubMed and EBSCO business, looking for cost indicators of electronic health record (EHR) implementations and their associated benefit indicators. We provide a set of the most common cost and benefit (CB) indicators used in…

Previous reviews of research on electronic health record (EHR) data quality have not focused on the needs of quality measurement. The authors reviewed empirical studies of EHR data quality, published from January 2004, with an emphasis on data…

Driven by government priorities and significant financial investments, stakeholders in Canada are working actively to develop and deploy pan-Canadian, interoperable electronic health record (EHR) systems. Efforts to date have concentrated primarily…

Background: Consumers with chronic conditions account for approximately 70% of all healthcare spending. The Chronic Care Model is a healthcare paradigm whose purpose is the achievement of improved patient outcomes by facilitating the delivery of…