Enhancing continuity of care through an emergency medical card at Intermountain Healthcare: using continuity of Care Record (CCR) standard.
The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate a CCR - compliant system to enable patients at Intermountain Healthcare to (a) create/print a pocket emergency medical card - EMC (b) create/print a full CCR document, from existing data in their personal database (c) modify/add information in the database. The aim was to promote continuity of care at reduced cost, data errors, and increased patient safety.
Olola
Christopher H O
CH
University of Utah, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Rowan
Belle
B
Narus
Scott
S
Hales
Joseph
J
Poynton
Mollie
M
Nebeker
Jonathan
J
Evans
R Scott
RS
D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D014589:Utah