TY - GEN
T1 - Electronic Lab Information Exchange (ELIE) in Saudi Arabia
AU - Al Saleem, Nouf
AU - El Metwally, Ashraf
AU - Househ, Mowafa
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Saudi experience in implementing Electronic Lab Information Exchange (ELIE) within healthcare organizations in Saudi Arabia. This paper reviews the benefits, challenges and achievements that Saudi Arabia has gone through over the last five years in implementing ELIE. Data sources included academic literature, websites, and informant interviews. Results show that various Saudi healthcare organizations are participating in ELIE and improvements in laboratory department workflow and patient care have been reported. Future work includes projects to be implemented in different laboratories within the Kingdom to link the various laboratory information systems to Electronic Health Records. Various challenges stand in the way of implementing ELIE including weakness of the information infrastructure, staff resistance, recruiting qualified staff to develop and implement ELIE, producing clear policy and procedures to ensure staff compliance with the data entry, ensuring the privacy and integrity of patient data, and the lack of awareness on the importance of ELIE.
AB - The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Saudi experience in implementing Electronic Lab Information Exchange (ELIE) within healthcare organizations in Saudi Arabia. This paper reviews the benefits, challenges and achievements that Saudi Arabia has gone through over the last five years in implementing ELIE. Data sources included academic literature, websites, and informant interviews. Results show that various Saudi healthcare organizations are participating in ELIE and improvements in laboratory department workflow and patient care have been reported. Future work includes projects to be implemented in different laboratories within the Kingdom to link the various laboratory information systems to Electronic Health Records. Various challenges stand in the way of implementing ELIE including weakness of the information infrastructure, staff resistance, recruiting qualified staff to develop and implement ELIE, producing clear policy and procedures to ensure staff compliance with the data entry, ensuring the privacy and integrity of patient data, and the lack of awareness on the importance of ELIE.
KW - Electronic Lab Information Exchange (ELIE)
KW - Health information exchange
KW - Lab information system (LIS)
KW - Saudi Arabia
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904177343&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-423-7-134
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-423-7-134
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 25000034
AN - SCOPUS:84904177343
SN - 9781614994220
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 134
EP - 137
BT - Integrating Information Technology and Management for Quality of Care
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 12th International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare, ICIMTH 2014
Y2 - 10 July 2014 through 13 July 2014
ER -