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Comprehensive evaluation of electronic medical record system use and user satisfaction at five low-resource setting hospitals in ethiopia.

Binyam Cheklu TilahunFleur Fritz-Kebede
Published in: JMIR medical informatics (2015)
Health professionals' use of the EMR is low and they are generally dissatisfied with the service of the implemented system. The results of this study show that this dissatisfaction is caused mainly and strongly by the poor service quality, the current practice of double documentation (EMR and paper-based), and partial departmental use of the system in the hospitals. Thus, future interventions to improve the current use or future deployment projects should focus on improving the service quality such as power infrastructure, user support, trainings, and more computers in the wards. After service quality improvement, other departments (especially inter-dependent departments) should be motivated and supported to use the EMR to avoid the dependency deadlock.
Keyphrases
  • healthcare
  • quality improvement
  • mental health
  • current status
  • primary care
  • physical activity
  • electronic health record