2018
DOI: 10.19082/6319
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Health information technology in ambulatory care in a developing country

Abstract: BackgroundPhysicians need to apply new technologies in ambulatory care. At present, with regard to the extended use of information technology in other departments in Iran it has yet to be considerably developed by physicians and clinical technicians in the health department.ObjectiveTo determine the rate of use of health information technology in the clinics of specialist- and subspecialist physicians in Semnan city, Iran.MethodsThis was a 2016 cross-sectional study conducted in physicians’ offices of Semnan c… Show more

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“…34 When the application of Medical Records can reduce medical errors, it will improve patient safety. 41 Then, the application of Electronic Medical Records in terms of documentation can improve the readability of data. 20,22 When documentation activities are carried out using a computer or digitally, it will minimize data reading errors or data loss.…”
Section: Benefits Of Clinicalmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…34 When the application of Medical Records can reduce medical errors, it will improve patient safety. 41 Then, the application of Electronic Medical Records in terms of documentation can improve the readability of data. 20,22 When documentation activities are carried out using a computer or digitally, it will minimize data reading errors or data loss.…”
Section: Benefits Of Clinicalmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This has an impact on improving the continuity of care and reporting, accuracy, patient evaluation processes, medical research, and policy analysis including the clinical decision-making process. 17,20,30,31,32,41 And then, the completeness and accuracy of the data will make it easier for professionals to provide care in monitoring, evaluating, and improving services. The application of Electronic Medical Records in hospitals is included in the good category, because it can provide benefits to users, such as making work faster to complete.…”
Section: Benefits Of Clinicalmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Information obtained from electronic medical records can improve supervision by management on the productivity of medical personnel [15]. The use of electronic medical records aims to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety [16]. Electronic Health Records (EHR) can improve the readability of data because the documentation is done computerized to minimize reading errors and data loss.…”
Section: Medical Record Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, it has an impact on improving service quality, satisfaction and patient safety. Through the implementation of RME, patient data documentation is computerized, thereby minimizing reading errors and data loss so it can improve the continuity of care, reporting, accuracy, patient evaluation processes and even clinical decision-making processes [4]. Other benefits of EMR include increasing data and information accessibility, improving coordination of care between medical/health care personnel, efficiency of health practices and supporting patient confidentiality as well as cost savings, effectiveness and efficiency of operational costs of care and hospital management.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%