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Electronic medical record (EMR) system has become increasingly more important in developed countries due to its convenience and efficiency in medical information storage, management and analysis. However, one of the main limitations of EMR lies in that the clinical data for patients cannot be exchanged among different medical institutions. Recently, the cloud-based clinic system, featuring in lower...
PurposeTo compare discrepancies between in‐home interviews and electronic medical records (EMRs) on regularly used prescription drugs among older home care clients.
MethodsThe participants were home care clients aged 75 years or older living in three Finnish municipalities. In‐home interview data on regular prescription drug use from 276 home care clients were compared with EMRs. Agreement between...
ICT enables improvement of healthcare processes, by increasing quality while simultaneously reducing costs. Among the different ICT-based solutions, mobile health is achieving an increasing importance: despite all potential benefits of mobile technologies, little attention has been putso far in their application within hospitals. As a result, any mobile solution introduction tends to not take into...
There is currently an international trend to involve computer and Internet in medical record. Electronic Medical Record (EMR) hold great promise for improving quality of patient care, but there are many limits to EMR adoption. We propose a technology that would overcome this limits, a single instrument that include the drug trolley and workstation computer. To asses the benefit of the introduction...
Considering the importance of the patient's medical information for the caregivers to ensure that patients receive appropriate and safe treatment, especially the emergency room (ER) patients, thus, sharing distributed medical information among healthcare institutions is essential. On the other hand, these institutions suffer from communication gap and the heterogeneity of their medical records. Therefore,...
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