The Austrian e-Medikation pilot evaluation: Lessons learned from a national medication list

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 192, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 347-351

  Janzek Hawlat, Stefan ^a   Ammenwerth, Elske ^b   Dorda, Wolfgang ^a   Duftschmid, Georg ^a   Hackl, Werner ^b   Hörbst, Alexander ^b   Jung, Martin ^b   Woertz, Klemens ^b   Gall, Walter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Electronic Health Records; Evaluation Studies; Medical Order Entry Systems; Prescription

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; SURVEYS;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEMS; EVALUATION STUDY; LOG-FILE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; PRESCRIPTION; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

HEALTH;

AUSTRIA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRIA; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 84894301811     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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