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The Information Society 9(2) The Electronic Medical Record Abstract - The Information Society 9 (2) The electronic medical record: A challenge for computer science to develop clinically and socially relevant computer systems to coordinate information for patient care and analysis Thomas L Lincoln, Daniel J Essin and Willis H Ware Creating a patient centered information system (PCIS) or electronic medical record system (EMRS) is now viewed by the health care community as necessary to coordinate modern patient care in a manner that can control costs. However, despite 25 years of significant effort, the distance between the information systems available today in health care and what will be needed to fulfill this promise remains large. Success depends on achieving 3 goals that are generally in conflict: 1. giving the users the full scope of features and detail needed to create and use electronic clinical records for decision making, 2. providing the speed and reliability nec...
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The electronic medical record: a challenge for computer science to develop clinically and socially relevant computer systems to coordinate information for patient care and analysis, a patient centered information system (PCIS), electronic medical record system (EMRS), health care community, electronic clinic records, online use of data, security, patient confidentiality, information society...