Title: E-Health readiness framework from Electronic Health Records perspective

Authors: JunHua Li, Lesley Pek Wee Land, Pradeep Ray, Subhagata Chattopadhyaya

Addresses: School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, The University of New South Wales, Asia Pacific u-Health Research Centre (APuHC), Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. ' School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, The University of New South Wales, Asia Pacific u-Health Research Centre (APuHC), Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. ' School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, The University of New South Wales, Asia Pacific u-Health Research Centre (APuHC), Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. ' Department of Biomedical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal University, Manipal 576-104, India

Abstract: Electronic Health (E-Health) systems include applications of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to promote healthcare services support, delivery and education. The success of an E-Health system is very much dependent on the success of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, as EHR forms the core of any E-Health system. Readiness assessment has been identified as an essential requirement for the success of EHR in terms of adoption rate or acceptance. Through a literature review of current E-Health readiness frameworks, it is observed that most studied components reflect healthcare providers| and organisational perspectives but there is an inconsistent coverage of the evaluation components. Further, an unclear measure of readiness levels poses another problem for E-Health readiness assessment. This paper presents an E-Health Readiness Assessment Framework (EHRAF) by integrating components of each reviewed framework and quantifying constructs (a graph-based approach) within the new framework.

Keywords: e-healthcare; electronic healthcare; EHRs; electronic health records; e-health readiness; assessment; evaluation; constructs; quantification; graph-based; electronic medical records.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIEM.2010.035626

International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, 2010 Vol.6 No.4, pp.326 - 348

Published online: 01 Oct 2010 *

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