Frequency : 12 issues per year
Subject : Computer Applications and Technology
ISSN : 2319–8656 (Online)
IJCATR Volume 6 Issue 11
Electronic Health Record Implementation Strategies
Richard A. Warren , Ify S. Diala
10.7753/IJCATR0611.1002
keywords : Electronic Health Records; EHR Implementations; Hospitals; Culture Acceptance; Technology.
Adoption of electronic health records (EHR) systems in nonfederal acute care hospitals has increased, with adoption rates across the United States reaching as high as 94%. Of the 330 plus acute care hospital EHR implementations in Texas, only 31% have completed attestation to Stage 2 of the meaningful use (MU) criteria. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies that hospital chief information officers (CIOs) used for the successful implementation of EHR. The target population consists of 3 hospitals CIOs from a multi-county region in North Central Texas who successfully implemented EHRs meeting Stage 2 MU criteria. The conceptual framework, for this research, was the technology acceptance model theory. The data were collected through semistructured interviews, member checking, review of the literature on the topic, and publicly available documents on the respective hospital websites. Using methodological triangulation of the data, 4 themes emerged from data analysis: EHR implementation strategies, overcoming resistance to technology acceptance, strategic alignment, and patient wellbeing. Participants identified implementation teams and informatics teams as a primary strategy for obtaining user engagement, ownership, and establishing a culture of acceptance to the technological changes. The application of the findings may contribute to social change by identifying the strategies hospital CIOs used for successful implementation of EHRs. Successful EHR implementation might provide positive social change by improving the quality of patient care, patient safety, security of personal health information, lowering health care cost, and improvements in the overall health of the general population.
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Title = "Electronic Health Record Implementation Strategies",
Journal ="International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research(IJCATR)",
Volume = "6",
Issue ="11",
Pages ="451 - 460",
Year = "2017",
Authors ="Richard A. Warren , Ify S. Diala"}
The paper proposes information on adoption of Electronic health records (EHR)
The idea is to explore strategies hospital CIOs use for successful implementation of EHR
Successful Implementation may benefit hospital leaders, employees and patients
Good process means better quality of patient care, safety and low health care cost