The document discusses the issues and challenges in implementing electronic health records (EHRs) in primary care. Some of the key challenges include technical challenges related to standardization and usability; high costs associated with infrastructure, training, and support; gaining user acceptance due to resistance to change and need for extensive training; workflow changes required in management and administration; and ensuring privacy and security of patient data. Addressing these challenges requires involvement of leadership, changes to processes and workflows, ongoing training and support, and legal compliance with privacy rules.

1. Issues and Challenges
in Implementing
Electronic Health
Records in Primary Care

2. What is Electronic Health
Record (EHR)?
Benefits
✗ Improve the accuracy and quality of
data recorded in a health record
✗ Enhance healthcare practitioners’
access to a patient’s healthcare
information
✗ Improve the quality of care as a result
of having health information
immediately available
✗ Improve the efficiency of the health
record service
✗ Contain healthcare costs
The digital version of a patient's
paper chart.
EHRs are real-time,
patient-centered records that make
information available instantly and
securely to authorized users.
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3. What are the
Issues and
Challenges in
Implementing
EHR?

4. Issues and Challenges in
Implementation
✗ Technical Challenges
✗ Cost
✗ People and Training
✗ Management and Workflow
✗ Privacy and Data Security
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5. Technical Challenges
✗ Standardization
✗ EHR usability
✗ Quality of information
✗ Infrastructure
✗ Technical support
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6. Cost
✗ Infrastructure and computer systems
✗ Training
✗ Manpower
✗ System Support
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7. People and Training
✗ User Resistance: Change Resistant
and Computer Technology
✗ Training and Trainers
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8. Management and Workflow
✗ Involvement of administrators and
leaders.
✗ Changes in the process and
workflow.
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9. Privacy and Data Security
✗ Legal Complicance
✗ Information Availablity
✗ Back-up
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10. How to address the challeges?
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12. References:
✗ 6 common challenges in EHR implementation
✗ Electronic Health Records: Manual for
Developing Countries
✗ Adopting electronic medical records in primary
care - D.A. Ludwick a,b,∗, John Doucette a,c
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