Implementing an Electronic Medical Record in a Family Medicine Practice: Communication, Decision Making, and Conflict
Open Access
- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 3 (4), 307-311
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.326
Abstract
PURPOSE Electronic medical record (EMR) systems offer substantial opportunities to organize and manage clinical data in ways that can potentially improve preventive health care, the management of chronic illness, and the financial health of primary care practices. The functionality of EMRs as implemented, however, can vary substantially from that envisaged by their designers and even from those who purchase the programs. The purpose of this study was to explore how unique aspects of a family medicine office culture affect the initial implementation of an EMR.Keywords
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