Title
Shared Experience In 13 Local Danish Epr Projects: The Danish Epr Observatory
Abstract
In 1996 a national strategy,for the development of electronic, patient records (EPR)for the Danish hospitals and primary care was launched. An element in the strategy was to support a number of regional EPR development projects. The EPR-Observatoty has in the two recent years collected data from the regional projects, dealing with the expectations in four areas., 1) Impact on organisational issues, 2) Benefits of EPR. 3) Integration of EPR with other information systems and 4) security aspects of EPR.Among the observations an increasing teamwork and improved knowledge about the patient was found. What was expected. but not found, was resistance to EPR, as a result of changes in skills and power. The most obvious benefits are increased data accessibility and improved decision making. The most considerable disadvantage is an enormous growth in discontent with the systems performance and the,fact, that all the projects are delayed. Many different types of integration solutions are chosen, because of a lack of a common model for integration. Generally the projects find, that EPJ yields increased security. but logistical problems arise in having the systems running 24 hours 7 days a week.Economical benefits cannot he documented. This relates to the fact. that the regional projects are stand-alone projects. The ongoing growth in discontent with the EPR-systems and the fact, that all the projects are delayed must be subject to further exploration.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2001
MEDINFO 2001: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH WORLD CONGRESS ON MEDICAL INFORMATICS, PTS 1 AND 2
electronic patient records, national strategy, organisation
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
84
Pt 1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0926-9630
3
0.81
References 
Authors
1
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Nøhr113729.06
Margit Kristensen2908.67
Stig Kjaer Andersen318635.03
Søren Vingtoft4366.70
S Lippert531.49
Knut Bernstein6628.56
Morten Bruun-Rasmussen7456.79