Electronic Personal Health Record Use Among Nurses in the Nursing Informatics Community.

Electronic Personal Health Record Use Among Nurses in the Nursing Informatics Community.
Comput Inform Nurs. 2015 Jun 9;
Authors: Gartrell K, Trinkoff AM, Storr CL, Wilson ML
Abstract
An electronic personal health record is a patient-centric tool that enables patients to securely access, manage, and share their health information with healthcareproviders. It is presumed the nursing informatics community would be early adopters of electronic personal health record, yet no studies have been identified that examine the personal adoption of electronic personal health record's for their own healthcare. For this study, we sampled nurse membersof the American Medical Informatics Association and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society with 183 responding. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to identify those factors associated with electronic personal health record use. Overall, 72% were electronic personal health record users. Users tended to be older (aged >50 years), bemore highly educated (72% master's or doctoral degrees), and hold positions as clinical informatics specialists or chief nursing informatics officers. Those whose healthcare providers used electronic health records were significantly more likely to use electronicpersonal health records (odds ratio, 5.99; 95% confidence interval, 1.40-25.61). Electronic personal health record users were significantly less concerned about privacy of health info...

Source: Computers, Informatics, Nursing : CIN - June 9, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Gartrell K, Trinkoff AM, Storr CL, Wilson ML Tags: Comput Inform Nurs Source Type: research