Assessment of organizational readiness to implement an electronic health record system in a low-resource settings cancer hospital: A cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Organizational readiness for change is a key factor in success or failure of electronic health record (EHR) system implementations. Readiness is a multifaceted and multilevel abstract construct encompassing individual and organizational aspects, which makes it difficult to assess. Available tools for assessing readiness need to be tested in different contexts.

Objective

To identify and assess relevant variables that determine readiness to implement an EHR in oncology in a low-and-middle income setting.

Methods

At the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI), a 100-bed tertiary oncology center in Uganda,we conducted a cross-sectional survey using the Paré model. This model has 39 indicator variables (Likert-scale items) for measuring 9 latent variables that contribute

SUBMITTER: Kabukye JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7297346 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature