Original Article
A Hybrid Electronic Health Record System Integrating Electronic and Paper-based Records
Author(s):
Kenshi Terajima*, Norito Negishi, Kouichi Maruyama, Hiroaki Hasegawa and Kouhei Akazawa
Objectives: Ordinary electronic health record (EHR) systems have difficulty managing paper-based medical records because digitized paper-based records must be browsed with a viewer other than the main display for the EHR system. Because of this "fragmentation" of electronic and paper information, it is difficult to combine keyboard/ mouse input with handwriting input in a clinical setting. We developed a new EHR system to address this problem.
Methods: We revised a commercial EHR system to function as a progress note system that integrates keyboard/ mouse-based electronic records with digitized paper-based records, both of which can be viewed in a page-turning style. In this system all records, including paper-based records, are arranged in relation to the time they were writt.. Read More»
DOI: 10.24105/ejbi.2018.14.1.10