Digitally enabled patients, professionals and providers: making the case for an electronic health record in mental health services

Abstract

The move to a digital health service may improve some components of health systems: information, communication and documentation of care. This article gives a brief definition and history of what is meant by an electronic health record (EHR). There is some evidence of benefits in a number of areas, including legibility, accuracy and the secondary use of information, but there is a need for further research, which may need to use different methodologies to analyse the impact an EHR has on patients, professionals and providers.

The Ethics of Sharing: How Do Social Workers Decide What to Record in Shared Health Records?

“…Both the challenges and opportunities associated with the shift towards increasing record-sharing have received attention in literatures spanning multiple disciplines and perspectives (Greenhalgh et al 2009;Häyrinen, Saranto, and Nykänen 2008;Huuskonen and Vakkari 2015;Knowles 2009;Langan 2009;Maiorana et al 2012;Powell, Fitton, and Fitton 2006;Tai and McLellan 2012;Tuepker et al 2015) and focused on a range of professional settings (primary care (Tierney et al 2015); public health (Suzuki & Matsuda 2015); drug treatment and testing (Barton and Quinn 2002); hospital emergency departments (Hunt and Arend 2002); sexual health (Brook et al 2014;Hyde et al 2016); adolescent care (Bayer, Santelli, and Klitzman 2015) and mental health (Salomon et al 2010;J. Richardson and McDonald 2016;Liew 2012)).…”