1st Edition
Building an Electronic Disease Register Getting the Computer to Work for You
224 Pages
by
CRC Press
224 Pages
by
CRC Press
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This clear, straightforward and practical book uses the example of a disease register to show how computers can work for you, and not the other way round. The results are improved patient health and patient care. And computers play a major role in achieving this. The book describes how to computerise patient records, implement systems to process them in accordance with best practice and available... Read more
What this book is about. How the book is organized. About the authors. Part One: The process of implementing and EDR. What is an EDR? Computerising patient records. Managing the process of change. Part Two: Fylde PCG: a case study. The case study and its context. Establishing agreed policies across the PCG. Implementing the policy. Implementing the policy in an InPractice VISION practice. Implementing the CHD policy in an EMIS practice. Part Three: Where do we go from here? Future PCG developments for coding CHD. Conclusions. Appendix A: Vision guidance for the NSF. Appendix B: The web site.
Biography
Alan Gillies, Bev Ellis, Nick Lowe
