Science news articles about 'health information system'

Plans are underway to move Nunavut towards an electronic health information system, upgrading the mostly paper-based system that the territory's chief medical officer of health says is not working ...

Patients at Texas hospitals that have automated some aspects of their health information systems appear to have fewer complications, lower death rates and reduced costs, according to a report in the ...

Belize is digitizing its health information systems but, despite the benefits, concerns have been raised regarding patients' privacy.

... by illiteracy and the lack of power supply in rural Africa. They have produced a health information system that enables the authorities and the World Health Organization to improve health services in ...

... meningitis. The study included 2,780 children treated for bacterial meningitis, with data from the Pediatric Health Information System, a database containing information from 27 tertiary care children ...

... from 38 pediatric hospitals in the United States that participated in the Pediatric Health Information Systems database in 2006. They searched the database for 12 different adverse patient safety ...

... may depend on which hospital is treating the child. Using detailed data from the Pediatric Health Information System, the investigators examined the cases of 1,466 subjects 24 years of age and under ...

... taking full advantage of the growing amounts of longitudinal data stored in electronic health information systems". The authors analysed medical records from over 500,000 non-identifiable patients ...

... point of care. One of us has just returned from a health reporting fellowship in East Africa, where ... delays in procuring the drug, and weak health information systems that can't properly track national ...