Nursing Practice Links

The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care

Health care professionals and policymakers seeking to ensure greater value in health care services face many boundary conditions that are fixed and a host of problems that are not. Today, the opportunity to affect one of those boundary conditions—the information management capabilities in health care—is within our grasp. This report advocates the prompt development and implementation of computer-based patient records (CPRs). Put simply, this Institute of Medicine committee believes that CPRs and CPR systems have a unique potential to improve the care of both individual patients and populations and, concurrently, to reduce waste through continuous quality improvement. .

Medical Records Institute

Dedicated to promoting the development and acceptance of electronic health record systems around the globe.

New Pathways to Planning

Excellent resource for community profiling and development planning including online worksheets.

NursingCenter.com - The New Face of Nursing

Offers online CE courses, journals, forums, virtual university and more.

The Nurse's Place

This site has been created to assist health professionals using the Meditech HIS. It is a place to share ideas and find someone to network with.

Nursing Classification: What's in a Name?

Issues on standardized nursing language, vocabularies, and taxonomies. The need for a common language to communicate with consumers, health care providers and policy makers on both national and international levels is long overdue and is essential as we approach the 21st century. Authors in this issue concur that a common language will improve the delivery and documentation of patient care and enhance research efforts.