CONCLUSIONS: Primary care physicians were more likely to access electronic information on current drug use for patients of low SES taking multiple medications and with fragmented care. PMID: 17336141 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Medical … Continued
Highlights: ? A decision tool that scans the electronic medical record can identify patients who may safely use sodium phosphate. ? The decision tool was never overruled by endoscopists for clinical reasons. ? Use of the decision tool tended toward … Continued
Highlights: Abstract: Objective: Given the increasing number of older people, China has become an aging society. A mobile health service is a type of health informatics that provides personalized healthcare advice to those who require it, especially the older people … Continued
Highlights: ? Better quality of documentation of resident admission data was in the EHRs. ? Further improvement in the documentation of resident admission data is needed. ? The content of forms is a key determinant for better aggregation of data … Continued
CONCLUSIONS: SAFE and Epi Info are both cost-free and have low system requirements-characteristics that render this framework and software beneficial for developing countries. PMID: 17369080 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Conclusions: In several cases, paper served as an important tool and assisted healthcare employees in their work. In other cases, paper use circumvented the intended EHR design, introduced potential gaps in documentation, and generated possible paths to medical error. We … Continued
Conclusions: We found that neonatologists who agreed on a diagnosis rarely agreed on the most important data elements that led them to that conclusion. Future studies designed to articulate how physicians decide to direct their attention when presented with flowsheet … Continued
Conclusions: Complex systemic problems often derail ICT projects. The case study of an isolated region provides a number of lessons and insights to improve electronic records adoption projects. The limited resources and limited choices faced by the region lead to … Continued
Conclusion: Understanding these challenges to the current consult management process is important to help design enhanced informatics tools integrated into workflow to support coordination of care and tracking of consults requests. (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Authors: Häkkinen H, Korpela M The design and development of information systems should focus on a wider context than merely one user group or organization. This is particularly the case with systems integration. A tentative description of the activity network, … Continued