Information technology electronic medical records

The VA has invested heavily in electronic medical records and information technology of all kinds and keeping records in electronic form is now mandatory in almost all circumstances. The electronic medical record is critical to several other features without it the measurement, the monitoring of workload and clinical work and the accountability for performance would simply not be feasible. 

The two items belonging to the remote patient monitoring classification are telemedicine and telehealth. Finally, the pattern identification (to learn from errors and systems influences on adverse events) classification includes items such as electronic medical records and workload and staffing data systems. Additional information on technology commonly used by the nursing profession is available in Ref. [4]. 

Picture yourself visiting your doctor and presenting a credit card-sized chip that contained your entire medical history, or a surgeon in the US operating on a patient in Russia. Suppose you were responsible for managing the electronic health records at a large hospital with hundreds of thousands of patients. These scenarios represent current and future possibilities for health information technology. 

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