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Table 5 Most frequently identified HIS problems, for ECDs (N = 221 respondents) and EPDs (N = 111 respondents)

From: State of the practice of health information systems: a survey study amongst health care professionals in intellectual disability care

Problem

ECD

EPD

Total

Hard to retrieve information in system

124

61

185

Difficult to exchange electronic client/patient records with other caregiver

76

73

149

System is slow

103

44

147

Having to work in multiple systems at the same time

65

70

135

System is unavailable

86

40

126

Updates change the system

80

26

106

Hard to exchange information with other systems within care institution

74

8

82

Primary care classification method not differentiated enough for ID care

-b

75

75

Bad user interface

5

1

6

User roles and permissions

3

0

3

Other problemsa

4

1

5

No problems at all

10

5

15

  1. aProblems that could not be classified into one of the above problems
  2. bNot provided as an answer option in the survey for this system