Regenstrief Institute's Medical Gopher: A next-generation homegrown electronic medical record system

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 170-179

  Duke, Jon D ^a,b,d,e   Morea, Justin ^a,b,e   Mamlin, Burke ^a,b,e   Martin, Douglas K ^a,b   Simonaitis, Linas ^a,b,e   Takesue, Blaine Y ^a,b   Dixon, Brian E ^a,c,d   Dexter, Paul R ^a,b,e  

^a REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Wishard Eskenazi Health Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical decision support systems; Computerized physician order entry system; Electronic health record; Health information technology

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; COMPUTERIZED ORDER ENTRIES; COMPUTERIZED PHYSICIAN ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEM; HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; USER-CENTERED DESIGN PROCESS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

ALLERGY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL PATIENT; INTERNET; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MULTIMEDIA; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; WORKFLOW;

CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; COMPUTERIZED PHYSICIAN ORDER ENTRY SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; DOCUMENTATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PATIENT CARE; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84892488437     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.11.004     Document Type: Article

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