ReviewJournal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences2014
Utilization of open source electronic health record around the world: A systematic review.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Economic Evaluation of the Next Generation Electronic Medical Records in Singapore: Cost-Utility Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Contextual Barriers to Implementing Open-Source Electronic Health Record Systems for Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Are we ready for a sustainable approach? A qualitative study of the readiness of the public health system to provide STI services to the key populations at risk of HIV in Bangladesh.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- UK research data resources based on primary care electronic health records: review and summary for potential users.BJGP open · 2023Article
- The Role of Health Information Technology in Improving Awareness of Human Papillomavirus and Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Among U.S. Adults.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2023Article
- A Linked Open Data-Based Terminology to Describe Libre/Free and Open-source Software: Incremental Development Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2023Article
- Electronic medical record systems data use in decision-making and associated factors among health managers at public primary health facilities, Dodoma region: a cross-sectional analytical study.Frontiers in digital health · 2023Article
- EMR adoption in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a template to index pediatric central nervous system tumor care and a review of preliminary neuro-oncologic observations.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2022Review
- Identifying a minimum data set as a necessity to design a web-based personal health record for patients under chronic dialysis.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
- Two-stage topic modelling of scientific publications: A case study of University of Nairobi, Kenya.PloS one · 2021Article
- Leveraging Data Science for a Personalized Haemodialysis.Kidney diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Patients' self-reported receipt of brief smoking cessation interventions based on a decision support tool embedded in the healthcare information system of a large general hospital in China.Tobacco induced diseases · 2019Article
- Barriers and facilitators to Electronic Medical Records usage in the Emergency Centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi-Ghana.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2017Article
- Open-Source Electronic Health Record Systems for Low-Resource Settings: Systematic Review.JMIR medical informatics · 2017Review
- The State of Open Source Electronic Health Record Projects: A Software Anthropology Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2017Article
- Electronic Health Records: Then, Now, and in the Future.Yearbook of medical informatics · 2016Review
- What's Past is Prologue: A Scoping Review of Recent Public Health and Global Health Informatics Literature.Online journal of public health informatics · 2015Article
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Abstract
Many projects on developing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems have been carried out in many countries. The current study was conducted to review the published data on the utilization of open source EHR systems in different countries all over the world. Using free text and keyword search techniques, six bibliographic databases were searched for related articles. The identified papers were screened and reviewed during a string of stages for the irrelevancy and validity. The findings showed that open source EHRs have been wildly used by source limited regions in all continents, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and South America. It would create opportunities to improve national healthcare level especially in developing countries with minimal financial resources. Open source technology is a solution to overcome the problems of high-costs and inflexibility associated with the proprietary health information systems.
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