Electronic health record implementation can improve care, but may also adversely affect emergency department (ED) efficiency.
Evaluating performance using these applications is subjective and raises the need for our own statistic-recording implementation.
We recorded implementation of the ICS Post Cardiac Arrest Care Bundle, comprising; coronary reperfusion, haemodynamic optimisation, control of ventilation, blood glucose, temperature and seizures.
Analyzed by calendar year after electronic patient record implementation, mortality decreased strikingly.
19 Several themes echoed those previously reported in the electronic health record implementation literature (see box).
This may pose a significant barrier in Canada where IT infrastructure and electronic medical record implementation is targeted for completion only in 2015, 38 significantly later than in other OECD nations.
Despite an emphasis on quality performance and a system-wide electronic health record, implementation of automated eGFR reporting among VHA laboratories was incomplete and varied over many years following its adoption mandate.
And if so, shouldn't the media refocus attention not on individual doctors and electronic record implementations, but rather on fixing the system itself?
Gaining acceptance of PAT and full electronic batch record implementations has been challenging and is critical for the implementation of continuous systems.
The European ministers, meeting in Luxembourg, also demanded "early" talks on the most sensitive areas, such as ensuring the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary and fundamental rights, so as "to allow maximum time to establish the necessary legislation, institutions and solid track records of implementation".
