Patients want their physicians to look at them — not their computer screens — while in the exam room, a study has shown. Physicians in safety net hospitals who were assessed as high computer users ...

In its landmark reports on quality of medical care, [1,2] the Institute of Medicine brought attention to the frequency of errors in medicine, and offered several clear suggestions for how we might ...

Physician-researchers have developed a computerized decision support tool that uses a combination of patient information and characteristics to assist physicians and patients with decisions about ...

Health-care policymakers and administrators have championed specialty-designed software systems – including the highly-touted Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) systems – as the cornerstone of ...

Computer-generated histories of present illness were of higher overall quality, better organized and more useful than with histories written by physicians in gastroenterology clinics, according to a ...

We review the extent and functionality of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems in seven Western countries. We compare nations’ implementation levels; linkages with other health care ...

Physicians continue to use both paper- and computer-based workarounds when faced with electronic health record usability issues, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Information ...

3M Health Information Systems and Nuance Communications have announced a collaboration to develop a next generation, ICD-10-ready clinical documentation improvement solution. Powered by Nuance's ...

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles will not restart its computerized physician order entry system before 2006, after suspending use of the system in January 2003 following physician complaints ...

The article by Palen et al in this issue of theis an important contribution to the literatureon healthcare information technology(IT). 1 First, it is one of the few studies of a decision supportsystem ...

WINOOSKI, Vt., Nov. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Physician's Computer Company (PCC), the leading pediatric-focused vendor for independent pediatricians nationwide, has announced their membership in and ...

We review the extent and functionality of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems in seven Western countries. We compare nations’ implementation levels; linkages with other health care ...