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Professor Thanos Athanasiou MD PhD MBA FECTS FRCS

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer

Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences
 
 
 
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1022Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Wing (QEQM)St Mary's Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Al:2022:10.1159/000525135,
author = {Al, Ani M and Garas, G and Hollingshead, J and Cheetham, D and Athanasiou, T and Patel, V},
doi = {10.1159/000525135},
journal = {Medical Principles and Practice},
pages = {342--351},
title = {Which electronic health record system should we use? A systematic review},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000525135},
volume = {31},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The UK government had intended to introduce a comprehensive EHRs system in England by 2020. These EHRs would run across primary, secondary, and social care linking data in a single digital platform. This systematic review's objectives were to identify studies that compare EHRs in terms of direct comparison between systems and evaluate them using System and Software Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) ISO/IEC 25010. A systematic review was performed by searching EMBASE and Ovid MEDLINE databases between 1974 and April 2021. All original studies that appraised EHR systems and their providers were included. The main outcome measures were EHR system comparison and SQuaRE's eight characteristics: functional suitability, performance efficiency, compatibility, usability, reliability, security, maintainability, and portability. A total of 724 studies were identified using the search criteria. After review of titles and abstracts, this was filtered down to 40 studies as per exclusion and inclusion criteria set out in our study selection. Seven studies compared more than one EHR. The following number of studies looked at the various aspects of the SQuaRE respectively. Nineteen studies addressed functional suitability, n=18 performance efficiency, n=12 compatibility, n=25 usability, n=6 reliability, n=2 security, n=16 maintainability, and n=13 portability. Epic was the most studied EHR system and one of the most implemented vendors in the USA market, and one of the top ten in UK. It is difficult to assess which is the most advantageous EHR system currently available when looking at them in accordance with SQuaRE's eight characteristics for software evaluation.
AU  - Al,Ani M
AU  - Garas,G
AU  - Hollingshead,J
AU  - Cheetham,D
AU  - Athanasiou,T
AU  - Patel,V
DO  - 10.1159/000525135
EP  - 351
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 1011-7571
SP  - 342
TI  - Which electronic health record system should we use? A systematic review
T2  - Medical Principles and Practice
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000525135
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35584616
UR  - https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/525135
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/97518
VL  - 31
ER  -
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