Summary
Objectives: In this short review we provide an update of our earlier inventories of publications
indexed in MedLine with the MeSH term ‘Medical Records Systems, Computerized’.
Methods: We retrieved and analyzed all references to English articles published before January
1, 2008, and indexed in PubMed with the MeSH term ‘Medical Records Systems, Computerized’.
Results: We retrieved a total of 11,924 publications, of which 3937 (33%) appeared in a journal
with an impact factor. Since 2002 the number of yearly publications, and the number
of journals in which those publications appeared, increased. A cluster analysis revealed
three clusters: an organizational issues cluster, a technically oriented cluster and
a cluster about order-entry and research.
Conclusions: Although our previous inventory in 2003 suggested a constant yearly production of
publications on electronic medical records since 1998, the current inventory shows
another rise in production since 2002. In addition, many new journals and countries
have shown interest during the last five years. In the last 15 years, interest in
organizational issues remained fairly constant, order entry and research with systems
gained attention, while interest in technical issues relatively decreased.
Keywords
Computerized medical records systems - Med-Line - review
