Abstract

Although there is a significant influence of implementing the electronic health records (EHR) system in Qatar, there are very limited studies reviewed and analyzed the influence of implementing the EHR system on healthcare professionals in Qatar. This research aims to assess, summarize, and analyze the influence of the EHR system in healthcare settings in Qatar. The outcome of assessing the implementation of the EHR system may have advantages and disadvantages, which can impact healthcare professionals in healthcare settings in Qatar. The main objective is to evaluate EHR on healthcare professionals in healthcare. A total number of 210 participants were selected randomly from three private hospitals in Qatar. A validated survey distributed to physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and dietitians who work in these healthcare hospitals in Qatar. The purpose is to identify whether the outcome of using the EHR system improved healthcare professionals’ work after it has shifted from using files and hand-writing paperwork to the EHR system. By applying online survey, results indicate that most healthcare professionals positively perceive the use of the EHR system as a valuable system.

Highlights

  • Information technology (IT) has turned to be a significant part of many organizations to improve the quality of work (Shahmoradi, Darrudi, Arji, & Nejad, 2017)

  • The quantitative survey distributed by emails to all physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and dietitians who work in the three selected hospitals in Qatar

  • The analysis includes the frequencies of the demographic data, the descriptive statistics, the reliability, the correlations, the rotated component matrix, and the ANOVA one-way test

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Introduction

Information technology (IT) has turned to be a significant part of many organizations to improve the quality of work (Shahmoradi, Darrudi, Arji, & Nejad, 2017). Healthcare use digitalization in the form of Electronic Health Record (EHR) (Steinhubl, & Topol, 2015). Electronic health record (EHR) is seen as a positive, and it impact its use and increasing all over the world (Celikkan, Sahin, & Senuzun, 2013). When any new system appears and becomes available over the counter for organizations and populations use, it may face some level of resistance from many users, especially senior people who have adapted to use a manual review system for ages. It has been arguing that EHR can change the core organization, which in turn can improve the working process (Deokar, & Sarnikar, 2016)

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