title: Toward an integrated computerized patient record.
abstract: Developing a comprehensive electronic medical record system to serve ambulatory care providers in a large health care enterprise requires significant time and resources. One approach to achieving this system is to devise a series of short-term, workable solutions until a complete system is designed and implemented. The initial solution introduced a basic (mini) medical record system that provided an automated problem/summary sheet and decentralization of ambulatory-based medical records. The next step was to partner with an information system vendor committed to continued development of the long-term system capable of supporting the health care organization well into the future.
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Dole
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Luberti
mesh_terms: D005568:Forms and Records Control; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010934:Planning Techniques