title: [Electronic data records in primary health care and aspects of their development in Bosnia and Herzegovina].
abstract: In Medical Informatics medical documentation and evidention are most probably the key areas. Also, in primary health care it is very important and part of daily activity of medical staff. Bosnia and Herzegovina is trying to be close to developed countries and to modernize and computerize current systems of documentation and to cross over from manual and semi manual methods to computerized medical data analysis. The most of European countries have developed standards and classification systems in primary health care for collecting, examination, analysis and interpretation of medical data assessed. One of possibilities as well as dilemma, which data carrier should be used for storage and manipulation of patient data in primary health care, is use of electronic medical record. Most of the South East European countries use chip or smart card and some of countries in neighborhood (Italy) choose laser card as patient data carrier. Both technologies have the advantages and disadvantages what was comprehensively colaborated by the authors in this paper, with intention to help experts who make decisions in this segment to create and to correctly influence on improvement of quality, correctness and accuracy of medical documentation in primary health care.
authors.affiliation: Medicinski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu, BiH.
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Novo
authors.forename: Izet
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Masić
authors.forename: Selim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Toromanović
authors.forename: Mediha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karić
authors.forename: Lejla
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zunić
mesh_terms: D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010355:Patient Identification Systems; D011320:Primary Health Care