title: Electronic health records: critical success factors in implementation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  EHR implementation results in the improved quality of care, customer-orientation and timely access to complete information. Despite the potential benefits of EHR, its implementation is a difficult and complex task whose success depends on many factors. The purpose of this research is indeed to identify the key success factors of EHR.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a cross-sectional survey conducted with participation of 340 work forces from different types of job from Hospitals of TUMS in 2014. Data were collected using a self-structured questionnaire which was estimated as both reliable and valid. The data were analyzed by SPSS software descriptive statistics and analytical statistics.
  
  
  RESULTS
  58.2% of respondents were female and their mean age and work experience were 37.7 and 11.2 years, respectively and most respondents (52.5%) was bachelor. In terms of job, the maximum rate was related to nursing (33 %) and physician (21 %). the main category of critical success factors in Implementation EHRs, the highest rate related to Project Management (4.62) and lowest related to Organizational factors (3.98).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  success in implementation EHRs requirement more centralization to project management and human factors. Therefore must be Creating to EHR roadmap implementation, establishment teamwork to participation of end-users and select prepare leadership, users obtains sufficient training to use of system and also prepare support from maintain and promotion system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Information Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran.
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Safdari
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Information Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran.
authors.forename: Marjan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ghazisaeidi
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Information Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran.
authors.forename: Mohamad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jebraeily
keywords: Critical Success Factors; Electronic Health Records; human Factors; organizational Factors; project management; technical Factors