Line Melby
SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway
Hege K. Andreassen
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
Torbjørn Torsvik
NSE - The Norwegian Center for e-health research, Norway
Gunnar Ellingsen
NSE - The Norwegian Center for e-health research, Norway / NORD University
Gro-Hilde Severinsen
NSE - The Norwegian Center for e-health research, Norway
Line Silsand
NSE - The Norwegian Center for e-health research, Norway
Anne G. Ekeland
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway / NSE - The Norwegian Center for e-health research, Norway
Omid Saadatfard
NSE - The Norwegian Center for e-health research, Norway
Rune Pedersen
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway / NSE - The Norwegian Center for e-health research, Norway
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Published in: SHI 2019. Proceedings of the 17th Scandinavian Conference on Health Informatics, November 12-13, 2019, Oslo, Norway
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 161:17, p. 99-103
Published: 2019-11-07
ISBN: 978-91-7929-957-6
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
A cross-institutional Electronic Health Record (EHR) where all healthcare workers can access a patient’s record, is seen as an important means to improved access to information, better patient care, and increased efficiency. In Norway, the first EHR of this type (US based Epic EHR) is to be implemented in the Central Norway Regional Health Authority. General practitioners (GPs) are central actors in health service delivery, and consequently it is important that also they use the new system. However, we lack knowledge on GP’s expectations and needs for cross-institutional EHRs. Drawing on interviews with 17 GPs, we discuss these topics and conclude that the GPs interviewed are ambivalent towards an EHR of this scale.
General practitioners, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Cross-institutional EHRs.
