The National Electronic Health Record – A Review the Implementation Process in the World and Iran

The electronic health record includes the health information of people, which is collected and organized from different sources, including information systems of different levels of care. Considering the importance of organizing the information of this file and the access to its information for authorized users, its implementation method is of the highest level. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating its development process and providing development solutions for electronic health records

The present study is a combined review-descriptive-analytical type, the review part of which was conducted by searching the database of scientific articles using key words related to electronic health records. Also, this search was completed according to the free search results in common search engines and its study.

The review of articles and documents of 13 countries including England, America, Australia, Russia, Taiwan, France, Iceland, Uruguay, Austria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Norway and Brazil showed that based on the structure and formation of the service provision system and laws. Existing, top-down, bottom-down, and middle-of-the-road reviews were used to implement electronic health records.

Service delivery, coordination between decision sources, integration of different service delivery information systems, and existing laws related to integration and information sharing are factors that affect the implementation of electronic health programs.