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  • Health Services Research
  • Informatics
  • Systems Theory

Background:

  • Quality improvement is crucial for global health services.
  • Barriers to local change implementation and misinterpretation of behaviors can hinder progress.
  • Electronic health records (EHRs) impact knowledge generation and sustainability in quality improvement programs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To elucidate how complex adaptive system (CAS) theory offers valuable insights into responses and behaviors within informatics-enabled quality improvement programs in primary care.
  • To explore the role of informatics in facilitating quality improvement initiatives.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized case studies from two English primary care localities involved in quality improvement program development.
  • Employed a research strategy featuring purposefully sampled case studies.
  • Adopted a social constructionist ontological perspective for the research.

Main Results:

  • Observed both positive and negative influences on quality improvement programs, linked to a networked governance model.
  • Identified common challenges including time constraints, resource limitations, and workload pressures.
  • Highlighted the need for education and training in capturing, coding, recording, and sharing EHR information to meet diverse requirements.

Conclusions:

  • Primary care informatics promotes information symmetry among quality improvement program participants.
  • Informatics makes certain aspects of care explicit, aiding consensus on quality improvement priorities.
  • Informatics facilitates the identification of implementable solutions for quality improvement.