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Does Electronic Medical Records make cost benefits to non-profit seeking health care institutes?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Amarasiri, H. A. D. B. Dorabawila, S. S. K. B. M. |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Background: Sri Lanka provides a free public health care service to its permanent residents. Currently Sri Lankan health care system is in the process of using EMR systems both public and private sector healthcare institutions. There are few published data available regarding cost-benefits of EMR in profit seeking institutes in some countries and no published data on non-profit seeking institutes. Therefore, main objective of the study is to perform a cost benefit analysis (CBA) of EMRs in the public health care system in Sri Lanka and secondary objectives are to evaluate the perception of EMRs among patients, health care professionals and supporting staff. Methodology: Two Sri Lankan government hospitals’ OPDs; hospitals belong to Type A divisional category, were selected for the study. Those two hospitals were named as Hospital D and Hospital AR. Hospital D has an EMR system and hospital AR has traditional paper-based recording. A modified costbenefit analysis was done using achievable costs and benefits. Meanwhile, three different questionnaires were distributed among health care professionals, supporting staff and patients to determine their perception on EMRs. Results: This study found that Benefits-to-Costs ratio of OPD of the hospital D for the year 2015 was 0.269 and for hospital AR was 0.0589. From CBA four basic cost reductions were found as costs for stationeries, patient queue waiting time, supporting staff number and indirect costs such as drug balancing. Health care professionals, supporting staff and patients had a positive perception on EMR systems. Conclusion: Implementing EMRs to Sri Lankan health care system leads to cost reductions. If Sri Lankan government implements an EMR system only in OPDs of government hospitals, it will lead to save millions of rupees. There are thirty-five, Type A divisional hospitals in Sri Lanka. If this EMR system is implemented only in OPDs, Sri Lankan public health care system would have saved Rs192 million ($ 1.3 million) in 2015.Finally, it can be concluded that implementing EMRs in non-profit seeking health care institutes lead to cost reductions and save money. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.29322/ijsrp.8.5.2018.p7726 |
| Volume Number | 8 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0518/ijsrp-p7726.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.29322/ijsrp.8.5.2018.p7726 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
