From the Department of Environmental Health, Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology (Drs Soteriades and Kales), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass; Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Dr Soteriades), Cyprus Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Nicosia, Cyprus; Healthcare Management Program (Dr Talias), Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; MultiCare Health System (Dr Harmon), Tacoma, Wash; Salinas Urgent Care/Doctors on Duty (Dr Schumann), Salinas, Calif; and Harvard Medical School (Dr Kales), The Cambridge Health Alliance, Employee and Industrial Medicine, Cambridge, Mass.
J Occup Environ Med. 2013 Oct;55(10):1191-6. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31829b3a4c.
To examine the use of electronic medical records (EMRs) among US occupational medicine physicians (OMPs).
An electronic- and paper-based survey was conducted among OMPs using an anonymous self-administered questionnaire.
The OMPs reported using an EMR for billing purposes only (14.6%), clinical purposes only (27.8%), or both (39.3%) with the total EMR use of 81.7%. About 60% were satisfied with their EMRs, and 64% to 66% believed that EMRs improve safety and quality of medical care. Among OMPs not using EMR, 17% reported that they were likely to adopt an EMR in the year after the survey, whereas 47% were very unlikely to do so.
Occupational physicians' use of EMRs was relatively high. They also seemed to be satisfied with their EMRs and believed that EMRs improve both safety and quality of clinical care.
考察美国职业医学医师（OMP）使用电子病历（EMR）的情况。
采用匿名自填式问卷，对 OMP 进行电子和纸质问卷调查。
OMP 报告仅将 EMR 用于计费目的（14.6%）、仅用于临床目的（27.8%）或两者兼用（39.3%），总 EMR 使用率为 81.7%。约 60%的人对其 EMR 感到满意，64%至 66%的人认为 EMR 提高了医疗安全性和质量。在不使用 EMR 的 OMP 中，17%的人表示他们可能会在调查后的一年采用 EMR，而 47%的人表示不太可能采用。
职业医师 EMR 的使用相对较高。他们似乎对 EMR 感到满意，并认为 EMR 提高了临床护理的安全性和质量。
