Systematic Review of Factors Affecting Acceptance of Electronic Health Records

This research was conducted through systematic review of health information literature with the purpose of extracting the factors affecting the acceptance of electronic health records. In this study, using a five-stage search strategy, 194 articles were extracted from four scientific databases including PubMed, ScienceDirect, Cochrane Library and CINAHL, and were analyzed after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria. Then, the factors affecting the acceptance of electronic health records were reviewed and three categories of facilitators, barriers and common factorswere organized. The most important facilitator, barrier, and common factor includes the government support and health insurance companies, costs, and productivity and organization revenue, respectively.