CD ROMs for family doctors

Abstract

These days more and more Maltese Family Doctors are using information technology in their practices. Electronic medical records offer many advantages over paper-based systems, including fast and efficient data retrieval and professional presentation of patient data as problem lists and medication lists. This has been the experience of many colleagues who chose to use the program Transhis for their clinical records, and this has the added advantage that data is classified with ICPC and can be used for research purposes. More details were given in the article about the project published in the June issue of the Journal.