2. EMRs
Purpose: Study Implementation of Electronic Medical Records
Core Purpose Statement: Find possible ways to make EMRs
implementation easier.
Questions:
1.What things can administrators do to make the implementation
of EMRs easier for healthcare personnel?
2. As EMR continues to be implemented over time, to what extent
will it prove to be effective?
3. If age, job title and education level has any effect on
implementation learning process?
4. If the amount of time of training is enough for the employees to
learn the EMR system?
5. How computer experience plays a role in learning the EMR
implementation process?
3. EMRs
Participants:
• Healthcare workers
• Current/ Past EMR users
• Not limited to age/ sex/ race/ profession
• Come from random volunteers at a large Hospital
where I work.
• Anonymous
4. EMRs
Twenty three individuals employed at Saint Francis
Hospital, Connecticut were asked to complete a 10
question online survey.
15 of them worked in a hospital setting
3 worked in medical clinics
5 worked in outpatient doctors’ offices
11. EMRs
Limitations and Conclusions
Limitations- Small pool of participants and all employed at the same facility.
Conclusions-
As age increases computer experience decreases.
There was no difference in training for different positions.
The more EMR training a person had the higher they rated their overall
EMR experience.
There was no relationship between the amount of previous computer
experience an individual had and their subjective experience they had with
EMRs.
The older people had a slightly better time with EMRs.
Healthcare systems should increase the amount of training they can provide
employees before implementing EMRs as much as possible.
People who have no or little previous computer experience may actually
have a better EMR experience.
There should be no difference between job titles and amount of EMR
training employees receive.
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