Physician use of a computerized medical record system during the patient encounter: A descriptive study

Sheila S. Warshawsky; Joseph S. Pliskin; Jacob Urkin; Nurit Cohen; Ayelet Sharon; Maritzio Binztok; Carmi Z. Margolis

doi:10.1016/0169-2607(94)90079-5

Physician use of a computerized medical record system during the patient encounter: A descriptive study

Sheila S. Warshawsky, Joseph S. Pliskin, Jacob Urkin, Nurit Cohen, Ayelet Sharon, Maritzio Binztok, Carmi Z. Margolis

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

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The computerized medical record program, CLINIC, specifically designed at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to be used on-line in a primary care clinic during a patient encounter by healthcare professionals, has been in use for over 6 years in two community clinics. In order to analyse the effectiveness and use of CLINIC, four physicians were video recorded during working sessions before and after the introduction of CLINIC. While using CLINIC did not change the total mean encounter time, the lengths of the encounter components and record use did change. The physicians' work style changed from a 'conversational pattern' (continuous data recording) to a 'blocked pattern' (data entry at intervals).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	269-273
Number of pages	5
Journal	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Volume	43
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-2607(94)90079-5
State	Published - 1 Jan 1994

Keywords

Computerized medical record
Physician use of computerized medical record
Primary care clinic

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Computer Science Applications
Health Informatics

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