Electronic Health Records: Presented by Mrs. Senthilnayaki Ramasubbu - RN.RM - MSC (N)
Electronic Health Records: Presented by Mrs. Senthilnayaki Ramasubbu - RN.RM - MSC (N)
Electronic Health Records: Presented by Mrs. Senthilnayaki Ramasubbu - RN.RM - MSC (N)
HEALTH RECORDS
Presented by Mrs. Senthilnayaki Ramasubbu.RN.RM.MSc(N)
ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD (EHR)
• Electronic health record, is the electronic version
of the client data found in the traditional paper
record.
• EHRs are defined as “a longitudinal electronic record
of patient health information generated by one or
more encounters in any care delivery setting.
EHR:
Roles of EHR
• Represents patient’s health history
• Medium of Communication among health care
practitioners
• Legal document for health care
• Source for clinical outcomes and health
services research
• Resource for practitioner education
• Alerts, reminders, quality improvement
Data components documented in
EHR
An electronic health record should contain important data such as;
Abstract
• Background:
Despite the positive effects of Health Information Systems and
Electronic Medical Records use in medical and healthcare practices,
the adoption rate of such systems is still low and meets resistance
from healthcare professionals. Barriers appear when they approach
systems implementation. We need to understand these factors in
the context of Saudi Arabian hospitals to enhance EMR adoption.
This process should be treated as a change project.
• Objectives:
To identify, categorize, and analyze barriers perceived by different
healthcare professionals to the adoption of EMRs in order to provide
suggestions on beneficial actions and options.
• Methods
The study used a questionnaire to collect data from a random sample of
healthcare professionals of two major Saudi hospitals, one private and
the other is governmental, 158 valid respondents participated in the
survey equally from both hospitals and then the results were analyzed to
describe and evaluate various barriers.
• Results
The study identified six main categories of barriers, which are consistent
with those reported in recent published research. 1) Human Barriers,
related to the beliefs, behaviors and attitudes, 2) Professional Barriers,
related to the nature of healthcare jobs, 3) Technical Barriers, related to
computers and IT, 4) Organizational Barriers, related to the hospital
management, 5) Financial Barriers, related to money and funding and 6)
Legal and Regulatory Barriers, related to laws, regulations and
legislations. The six categories of barriers were validated with the
participants of the pilot sample.
• Conclusions
Human barriers as well as financial barriers are the two major categories
of barriers and challenges in the way of successful implementation of
EMRs.
Conclusion