Adoption, non-adoption, and abandonment of a personal electronic health record: case study of HealthSpace.

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the policy making process, implementation by NHS organisations, and patients' and carers' experiences of efforts to introduce an internet accessible personal electronic health record (HealthSpace) in a public sector healthcare system. DESIGN: Mixed method, multilevel case study. SETTING: English National Health Service; the basic HealthSpace technology (available throughout England) and the advanced version (available in a few localities where this option had been intr...

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Authors: Greenhalgh, T; Hinder, S; Stramer, K; Bratan, T; Russell, J

• Journal: BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
• Volume: 341
• Issue: 7782
• Pages: c5814
• Publication date: 2010-01-01
• DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c5814
• EISSN: 1756-1833
• ISSN: 0959-8138
• Language: English
• Keywords: Health Policy; Software; Electronic Health Records; Patient Participation; Internet; Electronic Mail; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; England; State Medicine; Humans