Impact of electronic medical record on physician practice in office settings: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increased investments are being made for electronic medical records (EMRs) in Canada. There is a need to learn from earlier EMR studies on their impact on physician practice in office settings. To address this need, we conducted a systematic review to examine the impact of EMRs in the physician office, factors that influenced their success, and the lessons learned.

Results

For this review we included publications cited in Medline and CINAHL between 2000 and 2009 on physician office EMRs. Studies were included if they evaluated the impact of EMR on physician practice in office settings. The Clinical Adoption Framework provided a conceptual scheme to make sense of the findings and allow for future comparison/alignment to other Canadian eHealth initiatives.In the fin

SUBMITTER: Lau F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3315440 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature