title: Organization's quality maturity as a vehicle for EHR success.
abstract: In health care industry, EHR has been advocated to improve care quality. The journey toward the development and adaptation of EHR should be holistic and integrate all the EHR's building blocks-health record management, business process improvement (BPI), collaboration and innovation, change management, user governance, etc.-that are intertwined together as like the links of a chain to improve quality of health care services. These cornerstones that shares common features with quality principles will pave the way for implementing EHR. To go along with quality features and take advantage of quality principles namely "quality maturity" builds a solid foundation for adaptation of EHR. Therefore, the recent theories of EHR success go far beyond technical rationales and focus on organizational and managerial factors in quality improvement. The milestone of quality concept in information system success is revealed in Delone and Mclean's model which launches system quality, information quality, service quality, as distinct elements of the IS success. EHR is a means to an end -to improve quality within enterprises- based on quality approaches. In this regards, more research should be conducted to investigate the relationship between of organization's quality maturity and EHR development success.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Information Management, Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Meidani
authors.forename: Farhnaz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sadoughi
authors.forename: Mohammad Reza
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Maleki
authors.forename: Shahram
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tofighi
authors.forename: Ahmad Barati
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Marani
mesh_terms: D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000592:standards; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States