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VP147 Implementing Electronic Health Record In A Children's Hospital
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2018
Abstract
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INTRODUCTION:
Since the adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems, which contain large volumes of aggregated longitudinal clinical data, promises a number of substantial benefits including better care, improved safety issues and decreased healthcare costs (1). It is also associated with significant costs and large technical and organizational impacts, therefore it is important to conduct comprehensive evaluations of healthcare delivery outcomes. The purpose of the study is to gather evidence on safety and overall effectiveness of EHR implementation in Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital (OPBG).
METHODS:
Decision-oriented HTA (DoHTA) method (2) was applied to assess the technology on clinical, technical, organizational, economic, legal, ethical and safety domains. It's a new implementation of the European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) CoreModel integrated with the Analytic Hierarchy Process. It allows defining an evaluation structure represented by a hierarchical decision tree filled by indicators of technology's performances, each of which was given a weight proportional to the impact that this criterion provides to achieve the purpose of the decision problem; finally, the alternatives’ ranking was defined.
RESULTS:
The multidisciplinary assessment took into consideration all of the aspects and recommendations about the benefits and disadvantages of EHR (3). The synthesis of scientific evidence integrated with results of the specific context analysis, resulted in the definition of components of the decisional hierarchy structure. In particular, EHR seems to offer many benefits in terms of safety and clinical effectiveness such as improved continuity and quality of care, and increased accessibility of the data. The implementation of EHR resulted in important organizational outcome such as EHR configuration, learning curve and training. For these reasons, the usability was the main technical characteristics of the technology taken into account. Finally, legal aspects on privacy and security of data, covered a key role in the assessment.
CONCLUSIONS:
A thorough evaluation of the EHR before its implementation has permitted hospital's decision makers to choose knowingly.
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