Aspects of the Computer-based Patient Record

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Physicians’ Needs for Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 3-11
Clinicians’ Needs for Office Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 12-15
Nurses’ Needs for Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 16-29
Hospital Administrators’ Needs for Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 30-35
Patients’ Needs for Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 36-39
The Computer-based Patient Record: The Third Party Payer’s Perspective....Pages 40-45
Health Care Researchers’ Needs for Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 46-56
Record Administrators’ Needs for Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 57-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Current State of Computer-based Patient Record Systems....Pages 67-82
Database Systems for Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 83-98
Terminals and Workstations for Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 99-101
The Health Care Professional’s Workstation: Its Functional Components and User Impact....Pages 102-124
Data Acquisition and the Computer-based Patient Record....Pages 125-139
Data Entry for Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 140-145
Information Retrieval....Pages 146-152
Image Processing and Storage for Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 153-156
Data Exchange Standards for Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 157-164
The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) and Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 165-175
New Communication Technologies for Integrating Hospital Information Systems and Their Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 176-200
System and Data Protection....Pages 201-211
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Medical Text Processing: Past Achievements, Future Directions....Pages 212-228
Essential Technologies for Computer-based Patient Records: A Summary....Pages 229-261
The Computer-based Patient Record System Vendor Survey....Pages 262-269
Front Matter....Pages 271-271
Future Vision and Dissemination of Computer-based Patient Records....Pages 273-293
A Bold Vision: The Computer-based Patient Record Institute....Pages 294-302
Back Matter....Pages 303-316