Title: Medical information technology: a vehicle for change

Authors: Bryan P. Bergeron, Michael T. Bailin

Addresses: Medical Informatics Laboratory, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Fruit Street, CLN 309, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Medical Informatics Laboratory, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Fruit Street, CLN 309, Boston, MA 02114, USA

Abstract: Medicine is under extreme pressure to reinvent itself into a system based on standard metrics that are repeatable and open to outside inspection and criticism. In this milieu, information technology takes a central role in the ongoing evolution of health care, simultaneously empowering clinicians and making them more accountable to the public, the government and their patients. The application of information technology in medicine, such as the development of the electronic medical record, clinical workstations and telemedicine, promises to redefine the practice of medicine.

Keywords: clinical medicine; electronic medical record; medical informatics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHTM.1999.001049

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 1999 Vol.1 No.1/2, pp.29-45

Published online: 30 Jun 2003 *

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