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Rescuing the Emergency Multiple Expertise and IT in the Emergency Field

OBJECTIVES: The rapid growth, both in technical and social approaches to the innovation phenomenon in health care suggests that profound changes are occurring...

Keywords: Emergency, Telemedicine, collaborative work, information technology

01/2003 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

Leveraging Information Technology Towards Enhancing Patient Care and a Culture of Safety in the U.S.

OBJECTIVES: To heighten awareness about the critical issues currently affecting patient care and to propose solutions based on leveraging information technologies to enhance patient care and influence a culture of patient safety. METHODS: Presentation and discussion of the issues affecting health care today, such as medical and medication-related errors and analysis of their root causes; proliferation of medical knowledge and medical technologies; initiatives to improve patient safety; steps necessary to develop a culture of safety; introduction of relevant enabling technologies; and evidence of results. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Medical errors affect not only mortality and morbidity, but they also create secondary costs leading to dissatisfaction by both provider and patient...

Keywords: Medical errors, patient safety, information technology, computerized patient record, Physician order entry, clinical decision support, clinical outcomes, Evidence-based Medicine

01/2003 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

An Inventory of Evaluation Studies of Information Technology in Health Care Trends in Evaluation Research 1982-2002

OBJECTIVES: During the last years the significance of evaluation studies as well as the interest in adequate methods and approaches for evaluation has grown in medical informatics...

Keywords: evaluation studies, health and medical informatics, technology assessment, information technology, health care, Health information systems, inventory, Review

01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

Information technology and nuclear medicine. Primary digitalized data and then

Aim, method: The scientific publications in the 2002 and 2003 issues of the journal Nuklearmedizin. Journal of Functional and Molecular Imaging were analyzed retrospectively with regard to the development of information technology methods...

Keywords: Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichung, Nuklearmedizin, Informationstechnologie

01/2004 | Nuklearmedizin, Schattauer

Technology to improve quality and accountability

A body of evidence has been accumulated to demonstrate that current practice is not sufficiently safe for several stages of central laboratory testing...

Keywords: accountability, auto-identification, errors, information technology, Knowledge management, laboratory testing, quality, report

06/2006 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter