Adoption factors associated with electronic health record among long-term care facilities: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act created incentives for adopting electronic health records (EHRs) for some healthcare organisations, but long-term care (LTC) facilities are excluded from those incentives. There are realisable benefits of EHR adoption in LTC facilities; however, there is limited research about this topic. The purpose of this systematic literature review is to identify EHR adoption factors for LTC facilities that are ineligible for the HITECH Act incentives.

Setting

We conducted systematic searches of Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) Complete via Ebson B. Stephens Company (EBSCO Host), Google Scholar and the university library search engine to collect data about EHR adop

SUBMITTER: Kruse CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4316426 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature