The increasing demand for health and social services, due
to the rise in the proportion of the elderly people requiring
care.
The increasing expectations of citizens for reduction
of inequalities, access to quality-assured and evidence-based care
services
The complexity of caring for people with acute and
chronic disease problems
The requirement to limit
healthcare costs and to optimize resource utilization, while providing the best possible
healthcare under limited budgetary conditions
The need to
reduce the unacceptable rates of medical errors and their significant impact on patient
safety .The increasing mobility of
patients
Inevitably, all of these factors have
influenced significantly over the years the health care industry and particularly the
ways in which healthcare organizations operate. Healthcare organizations, just like
other business entities, are information-intensive enterprises, generating on a daily
basis huge volumes of data from many different units such as clinics, laboratories,
surgeries, administrative offices, and so on. Yet, much of this data continues even
today to be processed manually is spite of decades of experience in the successful
application of Information Technology (IT) in other information-intensive industries. At
the same time, the health care industry has become significantly specialized and
complex. The electronic health record has a wide range of names and labels
including,Electronic Patient Record, Electronic Medical Record, Continuity of Care
Record or PatientMedical Record Information. While the different labels can denote
slight changes in the scope, the content, and the use of the record, the core role of
this central ITC tool remains the same: to enable comprehensive documentation of the
care provided to any citizen, and to make the right information available to the right
healthcare providers at the right time.
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