Publications by authors named "Sinem Cece"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the impact of digitizing nurses' paper forms in inpatient care, focusing on time and financial savings from reduced paper use.
- Using the HIMSS EMRAM criteria, the research takes place at Bahçelievler State Hospital in Turkey, which has some digitalized wards and some that are not.
- Results indicate significant time savings—e.g., reducing the time to fill out a patient history form from 45 minutes to 12 minutes—along with a total reduction of 41,289 paper pages over the year for 1,153 inpatients.
Objective: The Joint Commission International (JCI) and the Health Information Management System Society (HIMSS) are global accreditation groups for healthcare. JCI focuses on overall care quality, while HIMSS-Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) looks at digital processes. Meanwhile, the Health Quality Standards (SKS) is Turkey's own system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The digitalization studies in public hospitals in Türkiye started with the Health Transformation Program in 2003. As digitalization was accomplished, the policymakers needed to measure hospitals' electronic health record (EHR) usage and adoptions. The ministry of health has been measuring the dissemination of meaningful usage and adoption of EHR since 2013 using Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Intensive Care Units are one of the areas with the lowest digitization rate. This study aims to measure the effect of digitizing medical records kept in paper forms in ICUs on time-saving and paper consumption. In our study, care forms in ICUs were transferred to digital media.
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