Electronic health records for integrated mental health care: protocol for a scoping review

Abstract

Objective: Mental health care is known to be poorly integrated into many health systems and could benefit from improved information sharing facilitated by electronic health records (EHRs). Specific issues appear to have limited the application of EHRs in mental health care, including the sensitivity of mental health-related information and issues with data standardisation. This scoping review aims to explore how EHRs have been implemented and adopted in mental health contexts, and their impacts on information sharing. Further, it aims to explore how the unique issues of sensitive information and data standardisation have been addressed in examples of EHRs, if at all. Method: A comprehensive ..