Electronic Health Records in Dentistry: Relevance, Challenges and Policy Directions
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11110%2F25%3A10504951" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11110/25:10504951 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.identj.2025.103964" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.identj.2025.103964</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Electronic Health Records in Dentistry: Relevance, Challenges and Policy Directions
Original language description
Electronic health records (EHRs) have helped to transform modern healthcare by enabling structured, interoperable, and patient-centred information systems that connect providers, support research, and empower patients. Dentistry, however, has been slower to achieve full integration into national and international EHR frameworks, risking isolation from the broader health data ecosystem. This narrative review examines the global context of EHR development, the opportunities and risks for dentistry, and the policy directions that can guide successful integration. Drawing on international experience, national case studies, and the insights of both the FDI World Dental Federation's Consensus Statement on Integrated EHRs and FDI's Policy Statement on EHRs, the review highlights both the benefits and challenges of linking dental and medical records. Core oral and general health indicators that should be included in integrated systems are discussed, and relevant standards and interoperability frameworks presented. The paper concludes in a presentation of the FDI Policy Statement on EHRs, outlining practical recommendations, as well as a call to action to ensure that oral health is fully embedded within the digital health transformation. Comprehensive, secure, interoperable, patient-centred EHRs that integrate oral and systemic data on equal footing with medicine, built on common standards, auditable privacy and access controls, equitable patient and provider usability, and sustainable, routinely evaluated workflows, are essential to improve quality and safety of care, enable research and public-health monitoring, and support accountable, data-driven dentistry across settings. (c) 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of FDI World Dental Federation. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30208 - Dentistry, oral surgery and medicine
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Dental Journal
ISSN
0020-6539
e-ISSN
1875-595X
Volume of the periodical
75
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
103964
UT code for WoS article
001602280200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105020972366