Patient Health Information Management: Searching for the Right Model
by Kamila Smolij, MS, and Kim Dun, MD, PhD
Abstract
Accurate and timely health information is a crucial element in the medical decision making process during a medical encounter. Inadequate or misleading patient health information can lead to medical errors, inaccurate decision making, and increased cost. Providing physicians with access to every detail of a patient’s medical history is difficult.