Understanding and Improving the Design, Deployment and Use of Electronic Health Records.

1 September 2002 - 31 August 2005

Satisfying the growing demand for improved coordination and cooperation between healthcare providers presents a major challenge for healthcare planners. The NHS strategic programme Information for Health sets out to meet this challenge through the adoption of an electronic health record (EHR). The patchy success record of past electronic medical record projects, however, makes it clear that the problems the EHR faces are numerous and often complex. The aim of this 3 year multi-site project is to understand and develop solutions to these problems. In particular, we will examine the fundamental assumptions surrounding the EHR and devise more organisationally appropriate and practical strategies and tools for its design and deployment.This work is funded by the EPSRC.

Researchers: Dr Ian Graham; Prof Robin Williams

Contact: September 2002 to August 2005

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