| Summary: | 碩士 === 大葉大學 === 資訊管理學系碩士在職專班 === 93 === The medical records of patients were preserved in different medical service institutes, to physicians who care the patients cannot get complete medical records that patients cannot receive continuous medical care. The requirement of medical care is increasing, the medical service volume grows rapidly, and the development and usage of new facility and technology result in the raising of medical cost. In order to decrease the medical cost, raise the medical quality, and acquire the competitive advantage, digitalization has certainly become the trend of medical industry, and electronic medical records is playing the essential role.
This thesis makes made a complete explanation about the definition and range of electronic medical records through paper survey. We take a medical center and the hospitals of its strategic alliances as examples for case study, to survey the pre-construction investment of electronic medical records of hospitals in strategic alliance and both the tangible and intangible effectiveness after construction. We find that hospitals have to invest great amount of capital for constructing electronic medical records information systems to obtain the competitive advantages and continuous operations. The results in this thesis about the payback period, net present value and internal rate of return reveal that electronic medical records information systems are worth investing. The electronic medical records can show the effectiveness such as showing the professional image of hospitals, medical research, organizational re-engineering, process improvement, medical quality, productivity raise, and further reduce the cost of medical service and improve the competition advantages of hospitals. Patients hope more complete personal medical information can be the reference for diagnosis in time. We approve that the sharing of electronic medical records among hospitals in strategic alliance is absolutely helpful for understanding the patients’ disease history and continuous medical care; at the same time it also raises the medical quality. However, because the electronic medical records are easy to deliver and copy, patients will doubt about the security and privacy of personal medical records.
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