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Health Information Technology (HIT) related improvements in the quality care: HIT - 15 study analysis.pdf
Conclusions: HIT has the potential to enable a dramatic transformation in the delivery of health care, making it safer, more effective, and more efficient. Some organizations have already realized major gains through the implementation of multifunctional, interoperable HIT systems built around an EHR. However, widespread implementation of HIT has been limited by a lack of generalizable knowledge about what types of HIT and implementation methods will improve care and manage costs for specific health organizations. The reporting of HIT development and implementation requires fuller descriptions of both the intervention and the organizational/economic environment in which it is implemented.

===VA sudy - Does use of EHRs' take away personal care time from a patient? VA Article To take care of the Patient BioMed 2010.pdf===

Conclusions: VA personnel value EHRs’ contributions to supporting communication, education, and documentation. However, participants are concerned about EHRs’ potential interference with other important aspects of healthcare, such as time for clinical care and interpersonal communication with patients and colleagues. We propose that initial implementation of an EHR is one step in an iterative process of ongoing quality improvement.

Dutch study on adoption of Electronic Patient Records: Dutch epr.pdf
Conclusions: The implementation of the Dutch n-EPR has mainly followed a top-down approach, thereby neglecting the fact that the perceptions and preferences of its users (health care providers) need to be addressed in order to achieve successful implementation. The results of this study provide valuable suggestions about how to promote health care providers’ willingness to adopt electronic information exchange, which can be useful for other countries currently implementing an n-EPR. Apart from providing information about the benefits and usefulness of electronic information exchange, efforts should be focused on minimising the problems as perceived by health care providers. The safety and confidentiality of electronic information exchange can be improved by developing tools to evaluate the legitimacy of access to electronic records, by increasing health care providers’ awareness of the need to be careful when using patient data, and by measures to limit access to sensitive patient data. Improving health care providers’ recording behaviour is important to improve the reliability and quality of electronically exchanged patient data.