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Automated Ambulatory Medical Records Systems: An Orphan Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Stephen C. Schoenbaum  and
G. Octo Barnett
Stephen C. Schoenbaum
Affiliation:
Harvard Community Health Plan
G. Octo Barnett
Affiliation:
Massachusetts General Hospital
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Abstract

Automated ambulatory medical records systems (AAMRSs) have been operational for over 20 years but have not been adopted by more than a small fraction of their potential users. This paper presents a detailed analysis of the uses and benefits of the COSTAR-based AAMRS at the Harvard Community Health Plan and of the factors which have inhibited the dissemination of COSTAR. We conclude that AAMRSs have been an orphan technology and cite trends in health care that favor the future development of AAMRSs.

Type
Special Section: Orphan Technologies
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , Fall 1992 , pp. 598 - 609
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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