Electronic Health Record (EHR) Software is a software that is designed to create, store and update information about patients. It has a database that essentially stores digital information of every patient consequently ensuring that they are easily tracked by their physicians and that there is efficiency in the processes carried out within the precincts of the hospital as well as without.
In US today, there has been a relatively high adoption of electric health records system. However, a distinction needs to be made when it comes to a basic system and a certified system. A basic EHR system performs some of the functions and effectively digitizes patients’ information. It offers a limited range of capabilities to the physicians in managing patients’ information. A certified EHR system on the other hand, has most if not all the capabilities required of an EHR and is designed to seamlessly ensure efficiency in the hospital processes.
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The data provided shows the uptake of EHR systems both basic and certified for all states in the US. A sample of the data (n=15) is taken and analysis is done to check whether the mean of percentages of basic and certified electronic health records uptakes are the same all through the United States or not. The null hypothesis in this case, is that the mean of both types of systems is the same throughout the country. The alternate hypothesis on the other hand, is that at least one is different An Analysis of variance is done and the sample and the results are shown in the appendix.
In conclusion, the F-value obtained is calculated to be 54.77 with the F-critical being 4.195. Since the F-value is larger than the F-critical value we reject the null hypothesis. Therefore, a difference exists in the uptake of both basic and certified electronic health records.
References
Heath, M., & Porter, T. H. (2018). Change management overlooked: physician perspectives on EHR implementation. American Journal of Business .
Scanlon, P. (2016). Evaluation of the 2015 National Electronic Health Records Survey. National Center for Health Statistics
