Abstract
One of the objectives of the computerized medical record system COMPADOS, developed at the University Hospital of Gent, is to convince the individual physician of its advantages for patient care, medical research, medical education and health care management.
Several approaches have been experimented in order to smooth the implementation of the system:
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reduction, as far as possible, of the burden caused by the daily use of a computerized system
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increase of the advantages e. g. continuous availability of user selected information for direct patient care, introduction of some computer aided patient care techniques, care for high quality data in the computer record, elaboration of facilities for tne scientific use of the registered data.
Distribution of the workload of registration and validation, adaptation of the computerized procedures to the specific structure of a function a person performs, registration of the medical reality in all its complexity and consideration of immediate rewards for the user, are the main characteristics of COMPADOS. In addition, a sophisticated data protection system meets the ethical criteria one uses for a medical record system.
Although objective criteria for the evaluation of a medical record system are not available, it is attempted to evaluate the different aspects of the system, which is now in routine use in the University Hospital in Gent.
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van Egmond, J., Wieme, R.J. (1978). Compados: How to Convince a Physician to Use A Computerized Medical Record System. In: Anderson, J. (eds) Medical Informatics Europe 78. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93095-9_33
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