Health reform: Is routinely collected electronic information fit for purpose?

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-63

  Liaw, Siaw Teng ^a,b   Chen, Huei Yang ^a   Maneze, Della ^a   Taggart, Jane ^a   Dennis, Sarah ^a   Vagholkar, Sanjyot ^a,b   Bunker, Jeremy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SOUTH WESTERN SYDNEY LOCAL HEALTH DISTRICT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electronic medical record; Emergency department information system; Fitness for purpose; Information quality; Routinely collected data; System consistency

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE CLINICAL TERM;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL AUDIT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84856778643     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2011.01486.x     Document Type: Article

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