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It is estimated that doctors and other healthcare professionals spend close to 50% of their time shuffling through paper charts, forms, messages, and reports. Improved scrutiny and oversight through nongovernmental and governmental inspections and audits are clearly increasing this burden. This is especially true in assisted reproduction where laboratory staff may spend even more time on paperwork than other team members. It is estimated that only 50% of IVF clinics have implemented an electronic medical record (EMR) system, although this figure is difficult to confirm since no studies have been published on the topic.
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There are enormous advantages to electronic recordkeeping in ART. Though limitations related to clinical and laboratory practice variation among users exist, requiring customization at high cost, new and innovative ways of coding could overcome these limitations.
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Only one of the three areas (EMR, enterprise, and QM) of ART clinic data handling has been addressed by commercially available electronic practice management products.
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A first app for QC tracking of instruments has been recently introduced, but the field is in great need of a recordkeeping overhaul.
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Cohen, J., Fiser, S., Tomkin, G. (2019). IVF Data Management: From Clipboards to Smart Apps. In: Nagy, Z., Varghese, A., Agarwal, A. (eds) In Vitro Fertilization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43011-9_64
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