Incorporating occupational information in electronic health records : letter report /
"Each year in the United States, more than 4,000 occupational fatalities and more than 3 million occupational injuries occur along with more than 160,000 cases of occupational illnesses. Incorporating patients' occupational information into electronic health records (EHRs) could lead to mo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Washington DC :
National Academies Press,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Letter to NIOSH
- Study Process
- Background
- Occupational morbidity and mortality
- EHR use and incentives for meaningful use
- Benefits of Incorporating Occupational Information in the EHR
- Improve quality, safety, and efficiency of care and reduce health disparities
- Engage patients and families in their health care
- Improve care coordination
- Improve population and public health
- Ensure adequate privacy and security protections for personal health information
- Feasibility
- Current environment and technical considerations for each
- Occupational data element
- Cross-cutting challenges and opportunities
- Initial requirements and information modeling
- Conclusions
- Recommendations
- Initial focus on occupation, industry, and work-relatedness data elements
- Enhance the value and use of occupational information in the HER.