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Authors:
René Baranyi
Susanne Schinkinger
Wolfgang Schramm
Thomas Grechenig
Keywords: electronic health record; patient empowerment; qualitative survey; medical informatics
Abstract:
Nowadays electronic health records are evaluated and implemented worldwide. Future stakeholders, especially patients are not always integrated into all aspects of this process. An important problem with the rollout of a countrywide e-health project is the unequal distribution of the access to modern media, especially to computer and internet (“regional digital gap”), of people living in urban and rural areas - and if there are differences regarding the usage of an electronic health record between these two groups. Differences in these aspects between urban and rural areas where evaluated using an empirical trial. This qualitative survey was based on 20 interviews focused on the discrepancy between urban and rural areas regarding the opinion on the electronic health record in Austria. The results show that differences in some aspects regarding “personal data input”, “health information”, "own usage" and "data abuse" of an electronic health record exists.
Pages: 169 to 174
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011
Publication date: February 23, 2011
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4359
ISBN: 978-1-61208-119-9
Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France
Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011