TY - GEN
T1 - Meaningful use of electronic health records for physician collaboration
T2 - 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2014
AU - Noteboom, Cherie Bakker
AU - Motorny, Sergey P.
AU - Qureshi, Sajda
AU - Sarnikar, Surendra
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - EHRs (Electronic Health Records), can contribute greatly to improving care and managing the rising costs of healthcare. The use and the integration of EHRs (Electronic Health Records) in supporting collaboration to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare remains a challenge. It appears that the physicians are at the center of this bottleneck. As healthcare is provided by interdisciplinary teams of clinicians and collaboration and coordination are key to success. Literature suggests reasons for the limited use relate to policy, financial and usability considerations, but it does not provide an understanding of reasons for physicians' limited interaction and adaptation of EHR. This paper investigates how "meaningful use" of EHRs by physicians enable patient centered healthcare to be achieved. Following an analysis of qualitative data, collected in a case study at a hospital using interviews, this research shows how a collaborative technology architecture can enable the reduction in the costs of healthcare and improvements in the quality of care by enabling more patient centered health care.
AB - EHRs (Electronic Health Records), can contribute greatly to improving care and managing the rising costs of healthcare. The use and the integration of EHRs (Electronic Health Records) in supporting collaboration to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare remains a challenge. It appears that the physicians are at the center of this bottleneck. As healthcare is provided by interdisciplinary teams of clinicians and collaboration and coordination are key to success. Literature suggests reasons for the limited use relate to policy, financial and usability considerations, but it does not provide an understanding of reasons for physicians' limited interaction and adaptation of EHR. This paper investigates how "meaningful use" of EHRs by physicians enable patient centered healthcare to be achieved. Following an analysis of qualitative data, collected in a case study at a hospital using interviews, this research shows how a collaborative technology architecture can enable the reduction in the costs of healthcare and improvements in the quality of care by enabling more patient centered health care.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2014.87
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2014.87
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84902275810
SN - 9781479925049
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 656
EP - 666
BT - Proceedings of the 47th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2014
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 6 January 2014 through 9 January 2014
ER -