Best Practices for Implementing Electronic Care Records in Adult Social Care: Rapid Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the past decade, the use of digital or electronic records in social care has risen worldwide, capturing key information for service delivery. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digitization in health and social care. For example, the UK government created a fund specifically for adult social care provider organizations to adopt digital social care records. These developments offer valuable learning opportunities for implementing digital care records in adult social care settings.

Objective

This rapid scoping review aimed to understand what is known about the implementation of digital care records in adult social care and how implementation varies across use cases, settings, and broader contexts.

Methods

A scoping review methodology was used, with amendmen

SUBMITTER: Snow M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11888009 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature