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Managing Medication Information with Electronic Patient Records – A Finnish Clinicians’ Perspective

Eeva Heiro, Matti Mäntymäki, Managing Medication Information with Electronic Patient Records – A Finnish Clinicians’ Perspective. Heath and Technology 2(2), 113–122, 2012.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12553-012-0025-4

Abstract:

The health care sector is highly data and information intensive. For clinicians, efficient management of information is a key resource. Patient-specific medication information is one of the essential parts of information used to support the clinical decision-making. This multi-method study at hand combines qualitative and quantitative data to investigate Finnish physicians’ perceptions of EPRs and their use, mainly focusing on the management of medication information. Based on the empirical material, the EPRs had an important role in clinical practice, and the physicians used them in managing patients’ medication information. However, the results also reveal that the clinicians were not considerably satisfied with the quality of the current EPRs. The findings of this study highlight the need for improving the quality of the systems and increasing the physicians’ satisfaction to materialize the benefits from the EPRs to avoid further disappointment and frustration.

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BibTeX entry:

@ARTICLE{jHeMx12a,
  title = {Managing Medication Information with Electronic Patient Records – A Finnish Clinicians’ Perspective},
  author = {Heiro, Eeva and Mäntymäki, Matti},
  journal = {Heath and Technology},
  volume = {2},
  number = {2},
  publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
  pages = {113–122},
  year = {2012},
  keywords = {Electronic patient records, Physicians, Clinicians, Medication information},
}

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