Position Paper: A Proposal for Electronic Medical Records in U.S. Primary Care
By David W. Bates, M. Ebell, E. Gotlieb, J. Zapp, H. C. Mullins. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2003
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Delivery of excellent primary care-central to overall medical care-demands that providers have the necessary information when they give care. This paper, developed by the National Alliance for Primary Care Informatics, a collaborative group sponsored by a number of primary care societies, argues that providers' and patients' information and decision support needs can be satisfied only if primary care providers use electronic medical records (EMRs). Although robust EMRs are now available, only about 5% of U.S. primary care providers use them. Recently, with only modest investments, Australia, New Zealand, and England have achieved major breakthroughs in implementing EMRs in primary care. Substantial benefits realizable through routine use of electronic medical records include improved quality, safety, and efficiency, along with increased ability to conduct education and research. Nevertheless, barriers to adoption exist and must be overcome. Implementing specific policies can accelerate utilization of EMRs in the U.S.
Subfields: Health Information Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- Primary care physician time utilization before and after implementation of an electronic health record: A time-motion study (2005, background): “The costs of implementation, support, and maintenance, a lack of standards to support data exchange, and the challenges in selecting and evaluating vendor systems [12] make it difficult for institutions or smaller practices to adopt EHRs.”
- Electronic medical record use and physician-patient communication: an observational study of Israeli primary care encounters. (2006, background): “In contrast, only 5–15% of practices in the US use EMR [3,4], although their widespread may be anticipated in the near future [6].”