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An 8 page research paper (which includes a half-page abstract) that describes the electronic health record keeping system being implemented by the US military. This report offers a literature review of articles that describe the electronic record keeping system, the Composite Health Care System II, that is being implemented by the US Department of Defense throughout the entire extent of the US Armed Forces medical system, both in the US and abroad. The report, first of all, discusses why this system is urgently needed and the purposes it will fulfill. Then, the system itself is described and opinions of its worth, both pro and con, are summarized, with problem discussed. The report concludes with the evaluation that the system will contribute immeasurably to military health practice. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_khmehr.rtf
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US Department of Defense throughout the entire extent of the US Armed Forces medical system, both in the US and abroad. The report, first of all, discusses why this system
is urgently needed and the purposes that it will fulfill. Primary among these goals is that this system should alleviate the problem of soldiers wounded in combat arriving at medical
facilities without necessary paperwork on their care. The report then describes the system itself, and also offers opinions of its worth, both pro and con, which are summarized, with problems
discussed. The report concludes with the evaluation that the system will contribute immeasurably to military health practice. Introduction: The problem Imagine this scenario: a bomb goes off next to a
military convoy in Iraq and shrapnel seriously wounds one of the soldiers, who is rushed as soon as possible by medics to a combat support hospital in Baghdad, where surgeons
insert a breathing tube and remove his spleen (Hunt, 2005). The soldier is then transported by air to a military medical center in Germany; however, when he gets to Germany,
medical personnel receive a patient with a breathing tube and an incision in his stomach, but no paperwork to tell them what has or has not been done (Hunt, 2005).
Accompanying records may have been blown away in a downdraft from a helicopter as the soldier was transported out of Baghdad, but the point is that the physicians in Germany
do not know what to do next for this patient (Hunt, 2005). Therefore, in order to ensure proper care, tests will have to be performed, which have probably already
been done, and, in some cases, even operations are called for. Loosing handwritten combat medical records has been a serious problem for military medical care for quite sometime, but electronic
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