The paperless general practice
- 4 May 1996
- Vol. 312 (7039) , 1112-1113
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7039.1112
Abstract
Certainly electronic medical records have been admissible in medical litigation and criminal cases for some years,2 though the Civil Evidence Act requires that the computer system should be created for the purpose that it is being used; there should be proper hardware and software maintenance; electronic records should be contemporaneous; and there should be a full audit trail of additions and deletions. The required audit trails are specified in version 3 of the requirements for accreditation for general practice computer systems,3 and most systems now conform to at least these sections. Furthermore, there is …Keywords
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