Sentence examples for electronic records systems from inspiring English sources
Advocates contend that electronic records systems will improve patient care and lower costs through better coordination of medical services.
It may be, said Dr. David C. Kaelber, a co-author of the study, that electronic records systems may offer part of the solution.
For years, policymakers have said that the next big step in American health care should be electronic records systems that remind doctors and patients about needed care, and make it easier for doctors to share information with one another.
Even the internationally respected Mayo Clinic, which treats more than a million patients a year, has serious unresolved problems after working for years to get its three major electronic records systems to talk to one another.
RAND's 2005 report was paid for by a group of companies, including General Electric and Cerner Corporation, that have profited by developing and selling electronic records systems to hospitals and physician practices.
Advocates contend that electronic records systems will improve patient care and lower costs through better coordination of medical services, and the Obama administration is spending billions of dollars to encourage doctors and hospitals to switch to electronic records to track patient care.
Most important, the electronic records system allows both committees and doctors to track patient outcomes.
Records documenting the presence of someone at Homan Square, especially while they are there, have existed largely outside Chicago police's electronic records system.
The department spent months shopping for an electronic records system before awarding a $19.8 million contract to eClinicalWorks, a Massachusetts company that is a sales leader in the field.
The result, with Dr. Grossman's input, was an electronic records system that appeared in the 1970s and was used successfully by the Harvard Community Health Plan.
Instead, there is Pacer, the government-run Public Access to Court Electronic Records system designed in the bygone days of screechy telephone modems.
