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Transaction-Neutral Implanted Data Collection Interface as EMR Driver: A Model for Emerging Distributed Medical Technologies

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Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption continues to lag across the US. Cost, inconsistent formats, and concerns about control of patient information are among the most common reasons for non-adoption in physician practice settings. The emergence of wearable and implanted mobile technologies, employed in distributed environments, promises a fundamentally different information infrastructure, which could serve to minimize existing adoption resistance. Proposed here is one technology model for overcoming adoption inconsistency and high organization-specific implementation costs, using seamless, patient controlled data collection. While the conceptual applications employed in this technology set are provided by way of illustration, they may also serve as a transformative model for emerging EMR/EHR requirements.

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    Daniel Lorence, Anusha Sivaramakrishnan & Michael Richards

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Lorence, D., Sivaramakrishnan, A. & Richards, M. Transaction-Neutral Implanted Data Collection Interface as EMR Driver: A Model for Emerging Distributed Medical Technologies. J Med Syst 34, 609–617 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-009-9274-9

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