Authors: Goodyear-Smith F, Grant C, York D, Kenealy T, Copp J, Petousis-Harris H, Turner N, Kerse N PURPOSE: To explore the quality of data recording by practices and identify issues to be considered and addressed before such data can be … Continued
Conclusion: Positive messages about the benefits of falls technologies for promoting healthy active ageing and independence are critical, as is ensuring that the technologies are simple, reliable and effective and tailored to individual need. The technologies need to be clearly … Continued
Conclusions: This study achieved an initial understanding of the deep features of breakdowns from a process-oriented perspective, which allowed us to build the groundwork for a theoretical model of breakdowns in perioperative activities and to propose a design approach that … Continued
(Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Authors: Thielke S, Hammond K, Helbig S Electronic patient records often include text that has been copied and pasted from other records. A type of copying that involves the highest risk for confusion, medical error, and medico-legal harm is the … Continued
CONCLUSION: The object-oriented approach helped us to focus on the topic of interest, the assessment program, without being concerned by the whole environment. The assessment model we designed attempts to make a link with the business process performed in daily … Continued
Authors: Bastien JM The aim of this paper is to review some work conducted in the field of user testing that aims at specifying or clarifying the test procedures and at defining and developing tools to help conduct user tests. … Continued
CONCLUSIONS: Usage of store-and-forward teledermatology increases the average duration of a GP consultation with at least three and a half minutes. Further integration of teledermatology applications and electronic patients’ records may reduce the total duration of a consultation and increase … Continued
CONCLUSION: The CDS problem list mechanism was integrated into the process of medication order placement and promoted relatively accurate addition of problems to the EMR problem list. PMID: 18599342 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Medical … Continued
Conclusion: This Internet weight loss community plays a prominent role in participants’ weight loss efforts. Social support within Internet weight loss communities merits further evaluation as a weight loss resource for clinicians to recommend to patients. Understanding these communities could … Continued