Quality Requirements for Electronic Health Record Systems*. A Japanese-German Information Management Perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For more than 30 years, there has been close cooperation between Japanese and German scientists with regard to information systems in health care. Collaboration has been formalized by an agreement between the respective scientific associations. Following this agreement, two joint workshops took place to explore the similarities and differences of electronic health record systems (EHRS) against the background of the two national healthcare systems that share many commonalities.

Objectives

To establish a framework and requirements for the quality of EHRS that may also serve as a basis for comparing different EHRS.

Methods

Donabedian's three dimensions of quality of medical care were adapted to the outcome, process, and structural quality of EHRS and their man

SUBMITTER: Winter A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6291988 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature