The Perspective of Users After the Trial of the Electronic Record System in Home Health Care Unit

Abstract

The urge of using electronic systems in healthcare services especially in hospital via hospital information system become more and more, recently. With the new approaches for medical technology, many patient medical data in forms of electronic records are rapidly requested. Changing from paper-based information to electronic-based systems is very difficult task with many obstacles regarding on the implement processes, especially from the operating teams. Home healthcare unit at Ramathibodi hospital is one of the unit that requires co-operate from many caretakers and many health divisions, and thus require intensively data interexchange. The electronic home healthcare record system (EHHCRS) was designed with the concept of providing the healthcare teams with the ease of gathering patient information. Therefore after launching the EHHRCS, the survey inquiring healthcare team opinion is required. This paper presented a perspective survey from different users for the new electronic system. The new system involved the perspective considerations from the users, especially who directly involved the system. The results after trialed the EHHCRS demonstrated that all of participants in HHC's unit had good attitude to information technology and HIS.