An emperical Investigation into the impact of Electronic Health Records on Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety

Abstract

 The transformative impact of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) on healthcare quality in Saudi Arabia is the main focus of this study. The study examines how to implement EHRs to improve communication, make educated decisions, and ensure patient safety. It also discusses the advantages of doing so, including increased data accessibility and cost effectiveness. Issues with security and data interoperability are looked at concurrently. The study attempts to offer perceptive viewpoints on how the healthcare industry is changing while emphasizing how EHRs might improve overall quality control. As could be seen from above table, there is a positive and significant association between the all the variables under study. Hence our first two hypotheses have been substantiated. This means investing on training program could enhance quality as well as patient safety. Likewise, provision of best infrastructure also needs huge amount of financial resources. It could be seen from the result in table 2 that EHRs explained 26% variance in enhancing HCQ in Saudi healthcare system. Goodness of fit F= 277.112 found significant at p< 0.000. This implies that one percent investment in EHR cold increase HCQ by 51.4%. Likewise, the R2 for PST was recorded as .160 with F value 211.911 significant at 0.000, similarly for EHS, R2 was found as 0.121& with F value 292.820 significant at 0.000, all this led us to accept our hypothesis.