“Electronic health records are often discussed as a solution for developed nations, but a study from the Regenstrief Institute and the schools of medicine at Indiana University and Kenya’s Moi University explores the impact of electronic records on medical care in a developing country.
In the March issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Dr. Martin Chieng Were, assistant professor of medicine at the IU School of Medicine, reports that computer-generated reminders about overdue tests yielded nearly a 50 percent increase in the appropriate ordering of CD4 blood tests. CD4 counts are critical to monitoring the health of patients with HIV and guiding treatment decisions.”
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Jesse Emspak, International Business Times, 21 March 2011
Abstract (Were 2011)
