Managing electronic health records (EHRs) within hospitals presents significant challenges, particularly in ensuring the security, privacy, and accessibility of sensitive patient data. Traditional systems are often vulnerable to breaches and inefficiencies, demanding the need for exploration of...

Without proper security mechanisms, medical records stored electronically can be accessed more easily than physical files. Patient health information is scattered throughout the hospital environment, including laboratories, pharmacies, and daily medical status reports. The electronic format of...

We examine the personal health situation and how the complexities thereof affect the elderly Austrians' willingness to accept electronic health records (EHR). Using data from the sixth wave of the SHARE survey in Austria, we find the complexity of individual health problems and the social...

We examine the personal health situation and how the complexities thereof affect the elderly Austrians' willingness to accept electronic health records (EHR). Using data from the sixth wave of the SHARE survey in Austria, we find the complexity of individual health problems and the social...

An unintended consequence of prescription opioid to alleviate chronic pain, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, is that it has fueled an unprecedented epidemic of drug overuse across the U.S. Tens of thousands of people have died from opioid overdose every year since the 2000s, and many of them...

Politicians and policymakers have long dreamed of creating a national system of electronic health records (EHRs) that would radically transform the delivery of health care. The theoretical advantages of EHRs are tantalizing: among other things, they could reduce medical errors, improve care...

Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth. Little is known about how to improve it in resource-constrained settings. This study describes a field trial of a social recognition intervention to improve record keeping in clinics in two Nigerian states, replicating the...

Health information technology (HIT) innovation focuses on electronic health records (EHRs) that can collect, store, and transmit health information within electronic health information exchanges. HIT innovation holds great promise not only for improving public health, but also for controlling...

Electronic health records (EHRs) are widely perceived as having great potential for improving the quality of healthcare and diminishing the costs of that care. Present-day EHRs, however, are widely perceived as disappointing. Many doctors consider them time- and money-wasting nuisances that...

This paper examines how hospital adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) impacts medical procedure choice in the context of Cesarean section deliveries. It provides a unique contribution by tying the literature on EMR diffusion to the literature on the utilization of expensive medical...

The risk of patient harm due to medical care affects hundreds of thousands of patients and costs tens of billions of dollars every year. Advanced electronic medical records (EMRs) are expected to improve patient safety, but the evidence of their impact on patient safety is inconclusive. A key...

Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth. Little is known about how to improve it in resource-constrained settings. This study describes a field trial of a social recognition intervention to improve record keeping in clinics in two Nigerian states, replicating the...

Wer hätte nicht gerne die richtigen Mitarbeiter am richtigen Platz?Für die Personalauswahl gelten vielfältige rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen und die Personalpsychologie bietet reichhaltige Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten. Deshalb werden erstmals in einem Werk sowohl rechtliche als auch...

Today's health care provides its own spin on the word "complex". Somewhere in between the 2015 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the Physician Value-Based Payment Modifying Policies (VBP) and tenth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health...

Information systems generate detailed "trace" data about what individuals do and when they do it. Trace data may affect the resolution of lawsuits by, for example, changing the time needed for legal discovery. Trace data might speed resolution by clarifying what events happened when, or they...

Ziel von Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) ist die Klassifizierung und kostengünstige Verwaltung von Informationen. Informationen, auf die in einem Unternehmen oft zugegriffen wird, können von Informationen mit geringerer Zugriffshäufigkeit getrennt und den Unternehmensanforderungen...