title: The computerized patient record and confidentiality. The nabobs of negativism are wrong.
abstract: The handwritten medical record has been the method of choice for documenting health care data since the last millennium. Given this successful tenure, it would be natural to greet any new information system that purports to be an advancement with skepticism. Moreover, physicians as a group are hardly progressive. Yet health care is taking a giant leap and is finally accepting computerization. The advantages and drawbacks of computerized information systems have long been thoroughly tested in such diverse industries as the military, banking, and the airlines. It is difficult to imagine any of these industries in their modern form without an advanced information system.
authors.affiliation: Talbert Medical Management Corporation, Costa Mesa, CA, USA.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Lehrfeld
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Najman
mesh_terms: D001292:Attitude to Computers; D016494:Computer Security; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D014481:United States