[1]Terminology Note: Some papers use the terms
electronic medical records, electronic health records,
and electronic patient records interchangeably, while
others draw distinctions between their meanings. For the
purpose of consistency and clarification, we use the
term electronic health records, shortened to “EHR”, in
this paper to refer to both individual records and
integrated records systems. EHR is the most commonly
used term across the literature we selected.
Table
1: Theme
distribution across the literature.
|
EHR Technology Focus |
Anticipated Benefits |
Patient-Doctor Trust |
Privacy Ethics & Laws |
EHR Ownership Question |
Country- specific Focus |
Publication Type |
Gunter
& Terry, 2005 |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
United
States; Australia |
Viewpoint |
McClanahan,
2008 |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
United
States |
Viewpoint |
Jones
et al., 2010 |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
United
States |
Task
Force Paper |
Baskaran
et al., 2013 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
United
Kingdom |
Research
Paper |
Rodrigues
et al., 2013 |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Spain;
United States |
Research
Paper |
Vodicka
et
al., 2013 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
United
States |
Research
Paper |
Campos- Castillo
& Anthony,
2014 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
United
States |
Research
Paper |
Patel
et al., 2015 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
United
States |
Research
Paper |
Vimalachandran
et
al., 2016 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Australia |
Research
Paper |
Walker
et al., 2017 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
United
States |
Research
Paper |
Chorley,
2017 |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
United
Kingdom |
Research
Paper |
Hortman- Hawthorne
& Richards,
2017 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
United
States |
Literature
Review |
Shahmoradi
et al., 2017 |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
Iran |
Research
Paper |
Parks
et al., 2017 |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
United States |
Research
Paper |
Furusa
& Coleman, 2018 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Zimbabwe |
Research
Paper |
Hong
et al., 2018 |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Literature
Review |
Dong
et al., 2018 |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
United
States |
Viewpoint (Historical)
|
Alaqra
et al., 2018 |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Germany;
Sweden |
Research
Paper |
Hylock
& Zeng, 2019 |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
United
States |
Research
Paper |
Dinh-Le
et al., 2019 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
United
States |
Literature
Review |
Katusiime
& Pinkwart, 2019 |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Uganda;
Other developing
countries |
Literature
Review |
Zhang
et al., 2019 |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Research Paper |
Klecun
et al., 2019 |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Singapore,
England |
Research
Paper |
Duan
et al., 2020 |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
United
States |
Research
Paper |
Tardif,
2020 |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Canada |
Editorial |
Theme I: Anticipated Benefits
no competing interests declared.
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