Adoption and non-adoption of a shared electronic summary record in England: a mixed-method case study (27 May 2010)

Summary

This mixed method case study in The BMJ aimed to evaluate a national programme to develop and implement centrally stored electronic summaries of patients’ medical records. The authors found that creating individual summary care records (SCRs) was a complex, technically challenging and labour intensive process that occurred more slowly than planned. They concluded that complex interdependencies, tensions and high implementation workload should be expected when rolling out SCRs.