From the front line, report from a near paperless hospital: mixed reception among health care professionals.
Many Norwegian hospitals that are equipped with an electronic medical record (EMR) system now have proceeded to withdraw the paper-based medical record from clinical workflow. In two previous survey-based studies on the effect of removing the paper-based medical record on the work of physicians, nurses and medical secretaries, we concluded that to scan and eliminate the paper based record was feasible, but that the medical secretaries were the group that [...]
Author(s): Lium, Jan-Tore, Laerum, Hallvard, Schulz, Tom, Faxvaag, Arild
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2108