Some more HIBA findings were presented at the International Conference on Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR) organized online by Linnaeus University and the University of Sheffield. Material for the presentation that focused on developing a classification of the types of interactions with electronic patient portals and health records can be found below.
Abstract
Current research on electronic patient portals and electronic health records shows a broad range of benefits to both patients, healthcare professionals and healthcare when patients are allowed to take part of their medical record information. There are, however, shortcomings in the current knowledge about patients’ and other stakeholders’ information interactions with electronic health record systems and what motivates them to use these. We present a tentative classification of information interactions with an electronic patient portal, the stakeholders involved in the interactions and reasons that motivate patients to interact with electronic health record information. The purpose with the classification scheme is 1) to inform the design of useful health information access systems, and simultaneously to 2) contribute to the broader information interaction research by acting as a first step in developing a more generic classification that brings together information interactions, their stakeholders and stakeholder motivations to engage with information.