Electronic Health Records for Drug Repurposing: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Directions

2020 ◽  
Vol 107 (4) ◽  
pp. 712-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Xu ◽  
Jianfu Li ◽  
Xiaoqian Jiang ◽  
Qingxia Chen
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Health Records ◽  
Drug Repurposing ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Electronic Health

Electronic Health Record

2012 ◽  
pp. 34-56
Author(s):  
Janine R. A. Kamath ◽  
Amerett L. Donahoe-Anshus
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Health Records ◽  
Personal Health Records ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Electronic Personal Health Records ◽  
Electronic Health ◽  
The Impact

Over the last two decades there has been considerable deliberation, experience, and research in the arena of Health Information Technology (HIT), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Electronic Health Records (EHR), and more recently, Electronic Personal Health Records (PHR). Despite the challenges involved in adopting these systems and technologies, there is consensus that they bring significant value to the delivery of trusted and affordable healthcare. The investment involved and the impact on customers, clinical and non-clinical staff, and processes are significant and far reaching. This chapter attempts to synthesize the vast amount of information, experience, and implementation perspectives related to Electronic Health Records with the intent of assisting healthcare institutions and key stakeholders make informed choices as they embark on designing, developing, and implementing an EHR. EHR considerations, challenges, opportunities, and future directions are also addressed. The chapter highlights the power of management engineering to facilitate planning, implementation, and sustainability of the EHR, a critical asset for a healthcare organization and the overall healthcare industry.

scholarly journals Electronic Health Records Functionalities in Saudi Arabia: Obstacles and Major Challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Karim Jabali ◽  
Mu'taman Jarrar
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Electronic Health Records ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Electronic Health

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Despite the innovative technology availability, however, the functionalities of usefulness are limited and not been explored in Saudi Arabian hospitals. This study aims to determine the extent and diffusion of Electronic Health Records (EHR) in public hospitals in Saudi Arabia and to explore the main obstacles, and problems of adopting EHR in these hospitals.METHODS: A comprehensive survey was developed and sent to the medium and large size hospital stakeholders to collect their opinions on the current status of the adoption and usage of EHR. Cluster random sampling has been used. The study has been conducted in the eastern province.RESULTS: Based on the 15 hospitals surveyed in the Eastern Province (EP), Saudi Arabia, a total of seven hospitals (46.6%) had an EHR system and the implementation is running. EHR is mostly used for order entry (51.11%) and char review (41.11%) in the EP in Saudi Arabia with obstacles to be used for decision support, documentation functions, communication tools. Despite the “secured” EHR system, the results shows that security mechanism did not cover all threats.CONCLUSION: The results suggest that more public hospitals are required to adopting more and more EHR and EHR functionalities. A periodic assessment of EHR status should be performed in addition to or part of an encouraging/ enforcing policies that can significantly increase the rate of adoption of EHR systems. Managers and policymakers can benefit from the study by facing obstacles and general challenges of problems like resistance to change from the medical staff in using the information technology, low and weak financing, and train technical supporting staff for adopting EHR.

Electronic Health Record

2011 ◽  
pp. 309-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janine R. A. Kamath ◽  
Amerett L. Donahoe-Anshus
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Health Records ◽  
Personal Health Records ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Electronic Personal Health Records ◽  
Electronic Health ◽  
The Impact

Over the last two decades there has been considerable deliberation, experience, and research in the arena of Health Information Technology (HIT), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Electronic Health Records (EHR), and more recently, Electronic Personal Health Records (PHR). Despite the challenges involved in adopting these systems and technologies, there is consensus that they bring significant value to the delivery of trusted and affordable healthcare. The investment involved and the impact on customers, clinical and non-clinical staff, and processes are significant and far reaching. This chapter attempts to synthesize the vast amount of information, experience, and implementation perspectives related to Electronic Health Records with the intent of assisting healthcare institutions and key stakeholders make informed choices as they embark on designing, developing, and implementing an EHR. EHR considerations, challenges, opportunities, and future directions are also addressed. The chapter highlights the power of management engineering to facilitate planning, implementation, and sustainability of the EHR, a critical asset for a healthcare organization and the overall healthcare industry.

scholarly journals Blockchain-Based Quality of Service for Healthcare System in the Gaza Strip

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Health Records ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Complete Health ◽  
Electronic Health ◽  
The Gaza Strip

Electronic Health Records EHRs are critical, highly sensitive private information in healthcare, and need to be frequently shared among different parties for example patients, physicians and administration. Blockchain provides a shared, immutable and transparent health records of all the transactions to build applications with trust, accountability, and transparency. This provides a unique opportunity to develop a secure and trustable EHR data management and sharing system using blockchain. This study aims to develop the use of health records as well as finding the current status of EHRs by designing a checklist to measure the extent of use of health records in the Gaza Strip hospitals and exploring the possibilities of using blockchain technology to develop the use of the electronic health records to share accurate and complete health data between multiple parties such as patients, doctors, and managers in an effective, transparent and secure manner.

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