scholarly journals Implementation of Integrated Electronic Health Record and Mobile Personal Health Record Datasets for Improving Healthcare Services

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1885
Author(s):  
Sol-Bee Lee ◽  
Jung-Hyok Kwon ◽  
Eui-Jik Kim ◽  
Jaehoon Park
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Health Record ◽  
Personal Health Record ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Electronic Health

Implementation of Electronic Health Record (EHR) System in the Healthcare Industry

2016 ◽  
pp. 1001-1016
Author(s):  
Robert P Schumaker ◽  
Kavya P. Reganti
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Health Record ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Health Information Exchange ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Efficient Delivery ◽  
Electronic Health

The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the efficiency of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) software that is adopted in the healthcare industry to provide better patient care. The authors examine the impact of EHRs on the efficient delivery of healthcare services. More specifically, they detail the origin of EHR, its significance in modern healthcare delivery along with the selection and implementation criteria for EHR software. They present a survey on the extent of adoption of EHR by clinicians. They also highlight the challenges and barriers faced by organizations in adopting EHR software such as cost, workflow impact and data security. Finally, the authors contemplate the future of EHR, its role in the implementation of health information exchange and its implementation in the cloud. They conclude that the implementation of EHR in the cloud is an important step towards better health management across the population with the end-goal of better health outcomes.

scholarly journals Examining attitudes toward and ability to interact with an online personal health record: A case study in Saudi Arabia

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bandar Faisal Al-Mifgai ◽  
Joseph Sharit ◽  
Arzu Onar-Thomas ◽  
Shihab Asfour
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Personal Health Record ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Health Numeracy ◽  
Electronic Health

Objective: This study examined the ability for adults from a developing country to use a personal health record (PHR) to perform health-management tasks. The effects of gender differences as well as differences in attitudes about using the internet to manage health prior to and after exposure to the PHR were also investigated.Methods: A simulation of a PHR based on a well-established U.S. online patient portal was designed and tailored for this particular study population. Two hundred and three adults with a mean age of 40.9 years were recruited from various areas in Saudi Arabia and asked to perform seven common health-management tasks of varying degrees of difficulty. Their electronic health literacy and health numeracy, as well as their attitudes about using online health systems for managing their health prior to and following their interaction with the PHR, were assessed using questionnaires.Results: After controlling for education, perceived health status, and comfort using the internet, electronic health literacy and health numeracy were still found to be significant predictors of participants’ task performance, but only for the more challenging health-management tasks. No important differences based on gender were found. Exposure to the PHR significantly increased the acceptability of using the internet for managing their health.Conclusions: The change in attitudes following interaction with the PHR suggests that many adults in this society could benefit from these electronic health systems, including females who, due to cultural considerations, may desire greater control in managing their health. However, the importance of electronic health literacy and health numeracy suggests the need for designs that minimize the impact of these factors for successful performance of health-management tasks.

scholarly journals A worker-centered personal health record app using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources and national healthcare datasets: A design and development study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Sang Park ◽  
Kwang Il Kim ◽  
Ho-Young Chung ◽  
Sung Moon Jeong ◽  
Jae Young Soh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Personal Health Record ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Medical Checkup ◽  
National Healthcare

BACKGROUND Personal Health Record (PHR) is a healthcare technology that can be used to support workplace health promotion, and prevent social and economic losses related to workers’ health management. PHR services can not only ensure interoperability, security, privacy, and data quality, but also consider the user's perspective in their design. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to design and develop a PHR app using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and national healthcare datasets to provide worker-centered, interconnected PHR services. METHODS This study considered the user's perspective using the Human-Centered Design (HCD) methodology to develop a PHR app suitable for occupational health. A prototype was developed by analyzing quantitative and qualitative data collected from workers and an expert group, following which a usability evaluation was performed. We structured the workers’ PHR items based on the analyzed data and then ensured structural and semantic interoperability using FHIR, Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT), and logical observation identifiers names and codes (LOINC). This study integrated workers’ health information that was scattered across different Korean institutions through a linkage method, and workers’ PHRs were managed through a cloud server using Azure API for FHIR. RESULTS In total, 562 workers participated in the quantitative study. The preferred data items for the PHR were medication, number of steps walked, diet, blood pressure, weight, and blood glucose. The preferred functions were accessing medical checkup results, content provision for health information, consultation record inquiry, and teleconsultation. The worker-centered PHR app collected data on topics such as life-logs, vital signs, and medical checkup results; offered healthcare services such as reservation and teleconsultation; and provided occupational safety and health information through material safety data sheet search and health questionnaires. The app reflected the improvements regarding user convenience and app usability that were proposed by 19 participants (7 experts and 12 end-users) who partook in the usability evaluation. The After Scenario Questionnaire (ASQ) was evaluated at 5.90 (± 0.34) out of 7, and the System Usability Scale (SUS) was evaluated at 88.7 (± 4.83) out of 100. CONCLUSIONS The worker-centered PHR app integrates workers’ health information that is scattered across different institutions, providing a variety of healthcare services from linked institutions through workers’ shared PHR. This app is expected to allow workers to have autonomy over their health information and support medical personnel’s decision making regarding workers’ health in the workplace. Particularly, the PHR app we developed would provide solutions for the major challenges of PHR, and its design, which would consider the user's perspective, thereby satisfying the prerequisites for its utilization in occupational health.

Implementation of Electronic Health Record (EHR) System in the Healthcare Industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert P Schumaker ◽  
Kavya P. Reganti
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Health Record ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Health Information Exchange ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Electronic Health ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the efficiency of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) software that is adopted in the healthcare industry to provide better patient care. The authors examine the impact of EHRs on the efficient delivery of healthcare services. More specifically, they detail the origin of EHR, its significance in modern healthcare delivery along with the selection and implementation criteria for EHR software. They present a survey on the extent of adoption of EHR by clinicians. They also highlight the challenges and barriers faced by organizations in adopting EHR software such as cost, workflow impact and data security. Finally, the authors contemplate the future of EHR, its role in the implementation of health information exchange and its implementation in the cloud. They conclude that the implementation of EHR in the cloud is an important step towards better health management across the population with the end-goal of better health outcomes.

A Context-Aware Authorization Model for Process-Oriented Personal Health Record Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 46-65
Author(s):  
Eleni Mytilinaiou ◽  
Vassiliki Koufi ◽  
Flora Matamateniou ◽  
George Vassilacopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Care Delivery ◽  
Personal Health Record ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Process Oriented

Healthcare delivery is a highly complex process involving a broad range of healthcare services, typically performed by a number of geographically distributed and organizationally disparate healthcare providers requiring increased collaboration and coordination of their activities in order to provide shared and integrated care. Under an IT-enabled, patient-centric model, health systems can integrate care delivery across the continuum of services, from prevention to follow-up, and also coordinate care across all settings. In particular, much potential can be realized if cooperation among disparate healthcare organizations is expressed in terms of cross-organizational healthcare processes, where information support is provided by means of Personal Health Record (PHR) systems. This chapter assumes a process-oriented PHR system and presents a security framework that addresses the authorization and access control issues arisen in these systems. The proposed framework ensures provision of tight, just-in-time permissions so that authorized users get access to specific objects according to the current context. These permissions are subject to continuous adjustments triggered by the changing context. Thus, the risk of compromising information integrity during task executions is reduced.

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