title: Health-oriented electronic oral health record: development and evaluation.
abstract: This study aims to develop and evaluate a new Health-oriented Electronic Oral Health Record that implements the health-oriented status and intervention index. The index takes the principles of holistic oral healthcare and applies them to the design and implementation of the Health-oriented Electronic Oral Health Record. We designed an experiment using focus groups and a consensus (Delphi process) method to develop a new health-oriented status and intervention index and graphical user interface. A comparative intervention study with qualitative and quantitative methods was used to compare an existing Electronic Oral Health Record to the Health-oriented Electronic Oral Health Record, focusing on dentist satisfaction, accuracy, and completeness of oral health status recording. The study was conducted by the dental staff of the Inter-country Center for Oral Health collaborative hospitals in Thailand. Overall, the user satisfaction questionnaire had a positive response to the Health-oriented Electronic Oral Health Record. The dentists found it easy to use and were generally satisfied with the impact on their work, oral health services, and surveillance. The dentists were significantly satisfied with the Health-oriented Electronic Oral Health Record compared to the existing Electronic Oral Health Record (p < 0.001). The accuracy and completeness values of the oral health information recorded using the Health-oriented Electronic Oral Health Record were 97.15 and 93.74 percent, respectively. This research concludes that the Health-oriented Electronic Oral Health Record satisfied many dentists, provided benefits to holistic oral healthcare, and facilitated the planning, managing, and evaluation of the healthcare delivery system.
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Public Health;  Thammasat University, Thailand.
authors.forename: Mansuang
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wongsapai
authors.forename: Siriwan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suebnukarn
authors.forename: Sunsanee
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rajchagool
authors.forename: Daryl
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Beach
authors.forename: Sachiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kawaguchi
mesh_terms: D003697:Delphi Technique; D003752:Dental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017144:Focus Groups; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009909:Oral Health; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013785:Thailand; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014944:World Health Organization
keywords: Accuracy and completeness; electronic oral health records; health index; user satisfaction