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Bridging information gaps between primary and secondary healthcare.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  17108641     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Medication errors are harmful and costly for healthcare systems. Recent studies show that a major part of these errors are due to the problems in transferring the patient current medication-data between primary and secondary healthcare. Recent ICT development promises to improve the communication between primary and secondary healthcare. In order to find out the constraints that may hamper a communication project's productivity, an IT configuration for building a medication-data communication network between primary and secondary healthcare in the Netherlands was followed applying qualitative methods. We analysed some important problems that project faced and conclude that problems with the data integration and saving the data integrity are important challenges for the project to maintain its objectives.
Authors:
Habibollah Pirnejad; Arjen P Stoop; Marc Berg
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Studies in health technology and informatics     Volume:  124     ISSN:  0926-9630     ISO Abbreviation:  Stud Health Technol Inform     Publication Date:  2006  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2006-11-19     Completed Date:  2007-01-19     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9214582     Medline TA:  Stud Health Technol Inform     Country:  Netherlands    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1003-8     Citation Subset:  T    
Affiliation:
Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. h.pirnejad@erasmusmc.nl
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Communication*
Humans
Information Systems
Medication Errors / prevention & control*
Netherlands
Primary Health Care*

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