From: The Integrated Electronic Health System in Iranian health centers: benefits and challenges
Theme | subthemes | Components | |||
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Benefits | Frequency (%) | Challenges | Frequency (%) | ||
Outcome | Quality of health services | Decreased errors and increased quality by service providers due to smart delivery of services and illustrating guidelines particularly required actions | 18(60%) | No modifiability of recording errors | 10(33.3%) |
Access | Possibility of access to quality and planned services for all people | 5(16.6%) | No interoperability of electronic records at different centers (excluding the university), increased errors, and repetitive processes (for not having patients' records) | 3(10%) | |
Possibility of access to integrated information for different users at any time and in any place and simplicity of information reporting and transmission | 15(50%) | ||||
Safety and privacy | No possibility of missing patient health records | 6(20%) | High accessibility of clinical data and exchange of information among different centers | 10(33.3%) | |
Screening and evaluation | The possibility to receive complete and integrated records related to activities of health units or health service providers at any time | 3(10%) | No discrete access to doctors' care indexes, nutrition experts, and psychology experts at health posts due to their identified roles at health centers | 2(6.6%) | |
Removing the problem of illegibility and lack of access to paper records | 2(6.6%) | ||||
Impossibility of changing the time recorded for service delivery | 12(40%) | ||||
Impossibility of changing and amending information after 24Â h | 12(40%) | ||||
Providing a framework for documentation | 10(33.3%) | ||||
Providing a dashboard of indices regarding the provider and health unit | 4(13.3%) | ||||
Research | Providing a very proper information center for producing and managing medical knowledge | 2(6.6%) | The possibility of fake recorded services in the system by users | 12(40%) |