Erschienen in:
25.06.2018 | Editorial
Breakdowns on the information highway during inter-hospital patient transfers
verfasst von:
William M. Tierney, MD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 9/2018
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Excerpt
I was a member of the team of physicians and technicians who developed, deployed, and studied one of the country’s first electronic health record (EHR) systems that were implemented in a large vertically integrated safety net health system.
1 By 1986, we had largely completed its development: the system had a comprehensive database of all laboratory test results, imaging study results, coded diagnoses from all inpatient and outpatient sites, and free-text reports of all inpatient and outpatient procedures.
2 A user-friendly data viewer allowed physicians and other clinicians’ easy access to patients EHRs from any clinical site. We had also implemented one of the nation’s first computer-based systems for writing all inpatient and outpatient orders and notes,
3 one that physicians actually liked,
4 and a widely utilized and intensively studied clinical decision support system.
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