title: The Relationship between Using Electronic Health Records and Meeting Accreditation Standards for Client Safety in Residential Aged Care Homes.
abstract: This study aims to identify the benefits of using electronic health records (EHR) for client safety in residential aged care (RAC) homes. The aged care accreditation reports published between 27 April 2011 and 3 December 2013 were downloaded and analysed. It could be seen from these reports that only 1,031(37.45%) RAC homes in Australia had adopted an EHR system by 2013. 13 RAC homes failed one or more accreditation standards. Only one of these was using an EHR system and this one met the accreditation standards on information systems. Our study provides empirical evidence to suggest that adopting and using EHR can be one of the effective organisational mechanisms to meeting accreditation standards in RAC homes.
authors.affiliation: School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2522, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2522, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001315:Australia; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009737:Nursing Records / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic