title: Requirements for prototyping an educational electronic health record: experiences and future directions.
abstract: Electronic health records and related technologies are being increasingly deployed throughout the world. It is expected that upon graduation health professionals will be able to use these technologies in effective and efficient ways. However, educating health professional students about such technologies has lagged behind. There is a need for software that will allow medical, nursing and health informatics students access to this important software to learn how it works and how to use it effectively. Furthermore, electronic health record educational software that is accessed should provide a range of functions including allowing instructors to build patient cases. Such software should also allow for simulation of a course of a patient's stay and the ability to allow instructors to monitor student use of electronic health records. In this paper we describe our work in developing the requirements for an educational electronic health record to support education about this important technology. We also describe a prototype system being developed based on the requirements gathered.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
authors.forename: Andre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kushniruk
authors.affiliation: School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Borycki
authors.affiliation: School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
authors.forename: Mu-Hsing
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.affiliation: School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Parapini
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Management, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Shu Lin
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia.
authors.forename: Kendall
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ho
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005544:Forecasting; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*; D020380:Needs Assessment; D016544:Patient Simulation; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012984:Software; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends