ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2021
Investigation of patients' access to EHR data via smart apps in Chinese Hospitals.
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- Effectiveness of Mobile Health Interventions in Pediatric Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Pooled it
- Developing Attributes and Levels for a Discrete Choice Experiment on Internet Hospital Service Preferences Among Chinese Patients with Chronic Diseases: A Mixed-Methods Study.Patient preference and adherence · 2026Article
- Methodological issues of the electronic health records' use in the context of epidemiological investigations, in light of missing data: a review of the recent literature.BMC medical research methodology · 2023Review
- A Latent Profile Analysis of Chinese Physicians' Workload Tethered to Paperwork During Outpatient Encounters.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundGiven that China has encouraged EHR usage in hospitals for more than a decade, patients' access to their own EHR data is still not as widely utilized as expected.
methodsWe cultivated a survey with four categories and field interviews of measures to identify whether hospitals have already released EHR data to patients, inpatients or outpatients, the top EHR release contents and the most popular release software.
resultsOf the 1344 responding hospitals from 30 provinces nationwide, 41.37% of hospitals have already released their EHR data to patients, of which 97.12% are through smart apps. More than 91% of hospitals use WeChat, and 32.37% of hospitals developed their own standalone apps or use vendors' apps. A total of 54.63% were released to both outpatients and inpatients, and the top release contents were all objective. A rough estimation is made that releasing EHR data to patients via smart apps may save the hospital 15.9 million RMB per year and patients 9.4 million RMB altogether.
conclusionsEHR data release is believed to bring both patient and hospital cost savings and efficiency gains but is still considered spontaneous and requires legal support and government regulation.
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