ArticleApplied clinical informatics2018
Adoption of Electronic Dental Records: Examining the Influence of Practice Characteristics on Adoption in One State.
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- Dental Students' Perceptions of an After-Visit Summary in an Academic Clinical Setting: Mixed-Method Approach.Journal of dental education · 2025Article
- Usability Assessment of Salud Electronic Dental Record System.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dentistry · 2025Article
- Influence of Practice Characteristics on the Adoption of Electronic Dental Records in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.Healthcare informatics research · 2023Article
- Informational Needs for Dental-Oriented Electronic Health Records from Dentists' Perspectives.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Current state of dental informatics in the field of health information systems: a scoping review.BMC oral health · 2022Article
- Investigation of patients' access to EHR data via smart apps in Chinese Hospitals.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2021Article
- Machine Learning-Driven Models to Predict Prognostic Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure Using Electronic Health Records: Retrospective Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- Improving Oral-Systemic Healthcare through the Interoperability of Electronic Medical and Dental Records: An Exploratory Study.Applied clinical informatics · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveCompared with medicine, less research has focused on adoption rates and factors contributing to the adoption of electronic dental records (EDRs) and certified electronic health records (EHRs) in the field of dentistry. We ran two multivariate models on EDR adoption and certification-capable EHR adoption to determine environmental and organizational factors associated with adoption.
methodsWe conducted telephone survey of a 10-item questionnaire using disproportionate stratified sampling procedure of 149 dental clinics in Tennessee in 2017 measuring adoption of dental information technology (IT) (EDRs and certification-capable EHRs) and practice characteristics, including region, rurality, specialty, and practice size. We used binomial logistic regression models to determine associations of adoption with predictor variables.
resultsA total of 77% of surveyed dental clinics in Tennessee had adopted some type of EDR system. When the definitions of certification capable were applied, the adoption rates in dental clinics dropped to 58%. A binomial logistic regression model for the effects of rurality, specialization, and practice size on the likelihood that a clinic would adopt an EHR product was statistically significant (chi-square (3) = 12.41,
conclusionFindings from this study indicate moderate to high levels of overall dental IT adoption. However, adoption rates in dental clinics do remain lower than those observed in office-based physician practices in medicine. Specialization and practice size were significant predictors of EHR-capable system adoption. Efforts to increase EHR adoption in dentistry should be mindful of potential disparities in smaller practices and between dental specialties and generalists.
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