Should occupational medicine physicians be linked to future computerized medical record networks?
Boulay, F.; Hillenweck, P.; Roure, M.C.
Presse Medicale 27(13): 618-621
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0755-4982 PMID: 9767938 Document Number: 486556
Upcoming reforms of the health care system place high expectations on computerized medical file networks to control medical expenditures. In France, information flow from the care delivery sector to the occupational medicine sector is often slow or incomplete. Company and social security expenditures or dysfunctions as well as patient incomfort may result. An analysis of occupational medicine practices and the needs of physicians working in this sector leads to several perspective proposals for improvement including access to future computerized medical file networks and the health data card Sesame.