Privacy of health records

"People are often assumed to support either privacy or security, as if the choice is between one or the other. However, RAND Europe has collected evidence as part of the largest ever surveys of citizens’ views across Europe on security, surveillance and privacy issues, and the results point to the general public having a much more nuanced understanding of those issues. This brief presents people’s preferences in the context of storage of electronic health records."

Privacy of health records: Europeans' preferences on electronic health data storage and sharing
S Patil, et al.
RAND Europe
August 2015

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Quality improvement financial incentives for general practitioners

"Across all literature in this review, there was a lack of explicit acknowledgement of whether the outcomes measured were absolute or relative improvement."

Quality improvement financial incentives for general practitioners
J Oliver-Baxter, L Brown, M Raven, P Bywood
Primary Health Care Research & Information Service
May 2014

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Factors affecting physician professional satisfaction

"We found that, when physicians perceived themselves as providing high-quality care or their practices as facilitating their delivery of such care, they reported better professional satisfaction."

Factors affecting physician professional satisfaction and their implications for patient care, health systems, and health policy
MW Friedberg, et al
RAND Corporation
2013

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Patient online: the road map

"Patient Online describes access by patients to online services (booking and cancelling of appointments, ordering of repeat prescriptions), online communication with the practice and online records."

Patient online: the road map
The Royal College of General Practitioners
March 2013

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Using electronic health records to improve quality and efficiency

"An examination of nine hospitals that recently implemented a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) system finds that clinical and administrative leaders built EHR adoption into their strategic plans to integrate inpatient and outpatient care and provide a continuum of coordinated services."

Using electronic health records to improve quality and efficiency: the experiences of leading hospitals
S Silow-Carroll, JN Edwards, D Rodin
The Commonwealth Fund
July 2012

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Knowledge management practices and healthcare delivery

"Being a knowledge driven process, healthcare delivery provides opportunity to incorporate knowledge management practices to improve processes."

Knowledge management practices and healthcare delivery: a contingency framework
P Bordoloi, N Islam
Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, 2012, 10(1)

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EHR-based care coordination performance measures in ambulatory care

"Good coordination of care in the ambulatory setting has the potential to reduce unnecessary or duplicative use of health services, prevent hospitalizations for ambulatory care–sensitive conditions, improve patient safety, and potentially reduce costs."

EHR-based care coordination performance measures in ambulatory care
KS Chan, JP Weiner, SH Scholle, JB Fowles, J Holzer, L Samal, P Renner
The Commonwealth Fund
November 2011

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Electronic health records: an international perspective on “meaningful use”

"This issue brief describes the extent of meaningful use in three countries with very high levels of health information technology adoption—Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden."

Electronic health records: an international perspective on “meaningful use”
BH Gray, T Bowden, I Johansen, S Koch
Issues in International Health Policy
The Commonwealth Fund
November 2011

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Evidence-based medicine in the EMR era

This is a report about how a physician, unable to find research evidence, used the data captured in his institution's electronic medical record and an innovative research data warehouse to create an "electronic cohort".

Evidence-based medicine in the EMR era
J Frankovich, CA Longhurst, SM Sutherland
New England Journal of Medicine, 2011

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Benefits and problems of electronic information exchange as perceived by health care professionals

"The results of this study provide valuable suggestions about how to promote health care providers' willingness to adopt electronic information exchange, which can be useful for other countries currently implementing an n-EPR."

Benefits and problems of electronic information exchange as perceived by health care professionals: an interview study
Zwaanswijk M, Verheij RA, Wiesman FJ, Friele RD
BMC Health Services Research, 2011, 11:256

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The role of networks in healthcare

In this issue brief, researchers describe how networks helped community health centres to use electronic health records to improve chronic and preventive care and the barriers they faced.


The role of networks in improving quality of electronic records in community health centres.
RH Miller, CE West
The Commonwealth Fund
August 2011

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