Review article
https://doi.org/10.46672/zsl.7.7.2
Electronic health record – advantages and obstacles in implementation and usage
Antonija Balenović
orcid.org/0009-0005-0157-3649
; Libertas International University
Vanja Lazić
; Community health centre in Zagreb
Jasna Mesarić
orcid.org/0000-0003-3710-8931
; Libertas International University
Abstract
Digital technologies and the electronic health record (EHR) have the ability to reduce the time medical staff spend on documentation, allowing more time for direct and better patient health care. By optimizing work processes for keeping health records, the time required for administrative obligations is reduced, thus improving the efficiency and satisfaction of physicians. There are also various obstacles to the implementation of EHR: input costs of various scales, digital literacy, time for education on the use of ICT, poor EHR solutions, language variations and terminological inconsistencies, medical and legal compliance and interoperability with existing computer systems. Although new electronic health data management has a number of benefits for both patients and physicians and for the health care system, barriers do exist and need to be identified and addressed to ensure secure and effective integration and enforcement. The promotion of these topics is important in order to quantitatively and qualitatively cover and analyze all the different effects that occurred after the implementation of the EHR, as they directly affect the safety and quality of health care.
Keywords
electronic health record; personal health record; implementation; barriers; advantages; safety; quality
Hrčak ID:
277645
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Publication date:
16.5.2022.
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