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Medical Informatics
Study results from E. Vedvik et al provide new insights into medical informatics
August 27th, 2009
"Many hospital departments have implemented small clinical departmental systems (CDSs) to collect and use patient data for documentation as well as for other department-specific purposes. As hospitals are implementing institution-wide electronic patient records (EPRs), the EPR is thought to be integrated with, and gradually substitute the smaller systems," researchers in Trondheim, Norway report. "Many EPR systems however fail to support important clinical workflows. Also, successful integration of systems has proven hard to achieve. As a result, CDSs are still in widespread use. This study was conducted to see which tasks are supported by CDSs and to compare this to the...
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Source: Computer Technology Journal (2009-08-27)
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