TY - RPRT
KW - Medical records systems
KW - Medical informatics
KW - Standards
KW - Delivery of Health Care
KW - Confidentiality
KW - Data collection.
KW - WHO Global Observatory for eHealth
AU - World Health Organization 
AB - Summary 
Enhancing the competencies of health professionals is only one of the ways health care services can be improved. The management of information in particular has been shown to impact the quality of health care service delivery. A powerful approach is to improve the tools with which health and health-related data and information are collected, stored, accessed, disseminated and used.

This publication covers areas related to the management of patient information at three levels (local health care facility, regional/district, and national). It analyses the trends in the progression from paper-based information to digital formats. Policy makers, administrators and health professionals will find this publication a useful reference source. 

BT - Global Observatory for eHealth Series 
CY - Geneva
LA - eng
M1 - No. 6
N2 - Summary 
Enhancing the competencies of health professionals is only one of the ways health care services can be improved. The management of information in particular has been shown to impact the quality of health care service delivery. A powerful approach is to improve the tools with which health and health-related data and information are collected, stored, accessed, disseminated and used.

This publication covers areas related to the management of patient information at three levels (local health care facility, regional/district, and national). It analyses the trends in the progression from paper-based information to digital formats. Policy makers, administrators and health professionals will find this publication a useful reference source. 

PB - World Health Organization
PP - Geneva
PY - 2012
SN - 9241504641 
EP - 76 p.
T2 - Global Observatory for eHealth Series 
TI -  Management of Patient Information : Trends and Challenges in Member States: Based on the Findings of the Second Global Survey on e-Health
UR - http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/76794/1/9789241504645_eng.pdf
ER -