Monitoring the integration of hospital information systems: How it may ensure and improve the quality of data

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 121, Issue , 2006, Pages 176-182

  Cruz Correia, Ricardo ^a,b,d   Vieira Marques, Pedro ^c,d   Ferreira, Ana ^c,d   Oliveira Palhares, Ernesto ^a,d   Costa, Pedro ^a,d   Costa Pereira, Altamiro ^a,b,d  

^a Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics ^*  (Portugal)

^b CINTESIS Center of Research in Health Information Systems and Technologies   (Portugal)

^c Center of Informatics   (Portugal)

^d University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Computerized Medical Records Systems; Data Quality; Hospital Information Systems; Medical Record Linkage; Systems Integration; Validation and Integrity

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; DATA REDUCTION; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION USE; INTEGRATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MONITORING;

COMPUTERIZED MEDICAL RECORDS; DATA QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL RECORD; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; VALIDATION AND INTEGRITY;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; PORTUGAL; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERDEPARTMENTAL RELATIONS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PORTUGAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34447534043     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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