title: Clinicians must invest resources when implementing electronic patient records.
abstract: Most often the investment in Electronic Patient Records (EPR) is decided upon on the basis of descriptions of all the advantages this new technology will bring. However, most of these advantages from EPR's are only obtainable if the clinicians are motivated to invest their knowledge and resources in this implementation process. This paper proposes a simple method to qualify the decision making process by introducing the "price to pay" concept.
authors.affiliation: Virtual Centre for Health Informatics, Aalborg University, Denmark.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Nikula
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Elberg
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Svedberg
mesh_terms: D003197:Computer Literacy; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009042:Motivation; D009816:Office Automation; D013223:Statistics as Topic