The challenges of transitioning from paper to electronic medical records

Nawaf Mithqal Saleh Alshammari; ‏Mohammad Ghatyan Sulaiman Alouthah; ‏Ahmed Saleh Madws Alrshidi; ‏Mateb Falah Nahar Alshammari; ‏Bander Mohammad Haia Alrasheidi; ‏Mansour Fahad Nasser Alshammari; ‏Abdullah Sulaiman Abdullah Alsudais; ‏Hamoud Faraj Freej Alsaadi; ‏Saad Nghimish Khasram Alshammari

doi:10.21744/ijhms.v2n1.2273

Authors

Nawaf Mithqal Saleh Alshammari ‏KSA, National Guard Health Affairs
‏Mohammad Ghatyan Sulaiman Alouthah ‏‏KSA, National Guard Health Affairs
‏Ahmed Saleh Madws Alrshidi ‏KSA, National Guard Health Affairs
‏Mateb Falah Nahar Alshammari ‏‏KSA, National Guard Health Affairs
‏Bander Mohammad Haia Alrasheidi ‏‏KSA, National Guard Health Affairs
‏Mansour Fahad Nasser Alshammari ‏‏KSA, National Guard Health Affairs
‏Abdullah Sulaiman Abdullah Alsudais ‏‏KSA, National Guard Health Affairs
‏Hamoud Faraj Freej Alsaadi ‏KSA, National Guard Health Affairs
‏Saad Nghimish Khasram Alshammari ‏‏KSA, National Guard Health Affairs

Keywords:

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), implementation, nurses, obstacles, patient health information, physicians, review

Abstract

The electronic medical record system is an essential instrument for enhancing healthcare by supporting improvements in patient care quality, patient safety, and cost savings via convenient access to medical data. Nevertheless, healthcare professionals' hesitant acceptance of the concept is accompanied by significant caution to guarantee its execution. The objective of this research was to ascertain the primary barriers to the adoption of the electronic medical record system as seen by doctors and nurses. A scoping study was conducted on scientific literature accessible in Pubmed, Scopus, ProQuest, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar to investigate the barriers to the acceptability of EMR systems. The scoping review included research that examined barriers to the use of the electronic medical record system by healthcare professionals. There are seven distinct categories of hurdles that have been identified: i. Technical ii. Financial iii. Time iv. Legal v. Organizational vi. Psychological, and vii. Social. The barriers most often cited were of a technical, financial, temporal, and legal nature. Furthermore, we also identified obstacles of an organizational, psychological, and social nature. The findings presented in this research may serve as a framework for the challenges that health professionals may encounter throughout the deployment process of the EMR system.

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