Exploring the Most Significant Barriers to Electronic Health Records

Abstract

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) represent a transformative shift in healthcare delivery, promising improved patient care, enhanced clinical decision-making, and streamlined healthcare operations. However, there are some potential advantages for healthcare organizations around the globe that face various constraints on extending and sustaining EHR systems. The movement from paper records to electronic systems we have discovered to be challenging, and expensive and involved other barriers that are technical, fiscal, structural, and personnel among others. These barriers are important to be known by healthcare administrators, policymakers, and technology designers to find strategies for successful implementation and adoption of EHR. This paper aims to systematically develop an understanding of the various challenges that face healthcare organizations when in the process of implementing and maintaining EHR systems, their implication on healthcare, and possible solutions. The importance of overcoming these barriers cannot be overemphasized because, EHR system implementation impacts patients' care quality, cost, and efficiency of the health systems.