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Perceptions Of Emr Documentation In The Home Setting, Catherine Hupf
Perceptions Of Emr Documentation In The Home Setting, Catherine Hupf
Applied Research Projects
The use of technology in healthcare is ever increasing in our hospitals, doctor’s offices, and clinics. Studies have been done to ascertain the perceptions of patients on the use of technology in the places that provide them care. This project was done for a population that does not always receive care where the clinician is. The care is in their home by clinicians who are using laptop computers and documenting in the EMR. Home care and hospice patients or their caregivers were asked to complete a survey with seven questions scored with a 5-point Likert scale to find that they …
Why Is Family Medicine Different?, F. Matthew Mihelic, Gregory H. Blake
Why Is Family Medicine Different?, F. Matthew Mihelic, Gregory H. Blake
Faculty Publications
An understanding of the role and function of Family Medicine in the healthcare system can provide important insights for Enterprise Architecture. It is often stated that the thought process utilized by Family Medicine physicians is different from that of specialty physicians, but heretofore there has been little or no analysis of what that difference is. This article examines that difference from the perspective of the complex adaptive system that is healthcare today, and shows how it is that Family Medicine physicians perform the vital function of decreasing the entropy or disorder in the patient care system via decision loops, as …