ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD (EPR) SYSTEM IN SOUTH AFRICA: RESULTS OF A PILOT STUDY

4^th International Conference on Medical Informatics & Telehealth

October 6-7, 2016 | London, UK

Temitope O. Tokos

University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Health Med Informat

Abstract :

Patient health records contain sensitive information for which an electronic patient record (EPR) system can safely secure and transmit amongst clinicians for use in improving health delivery. Clinician�s use behaviour of these systems is under scrutiny to assess their attributes towards health technology. South Africa (SA) clinicians responded to a pilot study survey to assess their understanding of EPR, what attributes are important towards technology use and more importantly streamlining the survey for a larger study. Descriptive statistics using mean scores were used because of the small sample size of 11 clinicians who completed the survey. Nine (9) constructs comprising 62 items were used and a Cronbach alpha score of 0.883 was obtained. Limitations and discussions conclude the study.

Biography :

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