ABSTRACT
Health care professionals either have a new electronic patient record (EPR) system or have realized that they are not using the old one very effectively. In order to make the most of the EPR professionals need to identify where all the information comes from, what the general practitioner do with it and where it goes. Before they can decide how he/she is going to deal with information electronically in the practice, they need to identify where it comes from. Within the primary care team they will need to consider how to record information gained from the following: members of the primary care team who do not routinely use the system; locum staff and residents who are unfamiliar with the practice computer system; and information generated by other organizations. The primary care team looked at their list of all the places they got information from. The professionals were quite surprised at how much of the information the nurses used.
