title: A comparison of electronic health records at two major Peking University Hospitals in China to United States meaningful use objectives.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In accordance with the People's Republic of China's (China) National Health Reform Plan of 2009, two of the nation's leading hospitals, located in Beijing, have implemented electronic medical record (EMR) systems from different vendors.To inform future EMR adoption and policy in China, as well as informatics research in the US, this study compared the United State's Hospital Meaningful Use (MU) Objectives (phase 1) objectives to the EMR functionality of two early hospital EMR adopters in China.
  
  
  METHODS
  At both hospitals, the researchers observed a physician using the EMR and noted MU functionality that was seen and functionality that was not seen yet was available in the EMR. The information technology department was asked about the availability of functionality neither observed nor known to the physician.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Approximately half the MU objectives were available in each EMR. Some differences between the EMRs in the study and MU objectives were attributed to operational differences between the health systems and the cultures in the two countries.
authors.affiliation: Center for Medical Informatics, Peking University, Beijing, China. jblei@hsc.pku.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jianbo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lei
authors.forename: Paulina
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sockolow
authors.forename: Pengcheng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.forename: Qun
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Jiajie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000592:standards*; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States