PAPER PRESENTATION

Dr. Bhavna Mittal MBA (HHC)

Symbiosis Institute Of Health Sciences

Technology is calling ……….

WHERE ARE YOU????

BETTER PATIENT MANAGEMENT….

THEY ARE ALL CALLING……

WHERE

ARE YOU

? ?

SCOPE OF ACCEPTANCE OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL

RECORDS AMONG DOCTORS IN INDIA

OBJECTIVES

• To determine if doctors in India are becoming more

receptive to the idea of Electronic Medical Records and

conduct factor analysis.

• To determine if acceptability and opinion regarding EMRs is

related to Demographic factors.

Chi Square TEST Results

• Sex of the respondent or the fact that they have or

haven’t studied/ worked abroad does not influence

opinion regarding EMRs .

• Respondents who are below 35 years of age are

more receptive to the idea of EMRs .

FACTOR ANALYSIS

• 13 FACTORS CONSIDERED…

• Responses recorded on a five point

Likert Scale

DISSUADING FACTORS….

• Compliance concerns – obtained by clubbing staff

discontent, patient non compliance and privacy

concerns.

• Training concerns – obtained by clubbing

expensive and time consuming training

DISSUADING FACTORS ….

• Management concerns – obtained by clubbing low

ROI and expensive maintenance

• Implementation concerns- obtained by clubbing

difficult implementation and time consuming

implementation.

 RESULTS & DISCUSSION

• The 12- 36- 96 Conundrum

• 45 out of the 50 respondents agree that EMR adoption

can contribute to the brand value of the hospital.

• Only two respondents stated that they would not

consider setting up an EMR system incase cost was

not a constraint.

CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATIONS

• to introduce induction courses on IT in health care in

the MBBS curriculum itself .

• Awareness programs

• ensure that a flexible navigation scheme is employed

• adopting policies on the lines of HIPPA

THANK YOU !!!