Abstract
By reviewing in the extant literature, it is inferable that implementation of Electronic Health Record (EHR) is practical for providing salutary effects in the healthcare industries during the procedure of medication reconciliation (Med Rec). This research aims to identify issues or latent concepts relevant to implementing EHR system in the Noor Hospital located in Alborz province, Iran. According to the recent study by scholars, nine latent concepts are related to the implementation of EHR, which are: care coordination issues (CCI); patient education issues (PEI); ownership and accountability issues (OAI); process-of-care issues (PCI); IT-related issues (ITRI); workforce training issues (WTI); workflow issues (WI); resources issues (RI); and documentation issues (DI). The author takes a quantitative method that involves questionnaires distribution among one hundred and thirty-eight practitioners. One hundred and thirty-two valid questionnaires were returned, and collected data were analyzed through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Findings supported the notion that all issues have a positive relationship with the implementation of EHR Med Rec in the Noor hospital. Among them, DI and PEI had the highest association. The current study implies arresting messages and ramifications for the managers in the healthcare industries in Iran, especially Noor Hospital, and it has its academic benefits in this research era.
Highlights
In the tense and stringent competitive era among healthcare industries, especially hospitals, managers and rectorates, should be able to survive their hospitals in order to glean a sustainable competitive advantage based on the formulation of an implementable strategy
By reviewing the above literature, it can be deduced that Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation in hospitals has attracted researchers’ attention in different countries inclusive of developed and developing ones
Exemplifying researches which have done in the era of electronic health in Iran as categorized earlier and noted by (Darvish & Far, 2017)
Summary
In the tense and stringent competitive era among healthcare industries, especially hospitals, managers and rectorates, should be able to survive their hospitals in order to glean a sustainable competitive advantage based on the formulation of an implementable strategy. According to the (Marmor, Clay, Millen, Savides, & Longhurst, 2018), there is a coincidence between emphasizing on patient outcomes and adoption of EHR in hospitals in the USA (Marmor et al, 2018). This statement is the chief impetus and arresting for managers in developing countries to follow the USA in this case as a paradigm. Managers who are concerned about the sustainability of their healthcare industries exclusively hospitals should act like perpetual motion machines to derive benefits of EHR implementation of which are practical for both of hospitals and patient outcomes that will be explicated in-depth in the literature review part of this article. The main ratiocination that lies behind reviewing mentioned researches is that EHR implementation has salubrious effects on the wellbeing of patients and increasing productivity and amelioration of working environment and it has a positive impact on the quality management and its dimensions http://ibr.ccsenet.org
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