Three quarters of trusts in England that responded to a survey by The BMJ are still reliant on paper patient notes and drug charts, despite progress towards electronic records and prescribing. The ...
The digital era is gradually taking over our institutional memory in healthcare. Every year, the next generation of physicians enters the workforce with no lived experience of a paper-based, analog ...
Ephrata Community Hospital (ECH) is in the midst of a major project-converting paper patient charts to an electronic format or electronic medical record system (EMR). John Jabour, ECH vice president ...