A Clinician's Work

What Clinicians Do Work Characteristics
  • Gather information
  • Produce orders
  • Communicate
  • Document: Clinical, Legal, Fiscal, Administrative
  • Perform procedures
  • Time limited
  • Complex
  • Interrupted, Reactive
  • Routine & novel
  • Expensive
  • Error intolerant but Error prone
  • Highly regulated
Internet Medical Records - Clinical
IMR Glossary Last revised: 16 Mar 2002
© 1998 John Faughnan.