Graphical Display of Diagnostic Test Results in EHRs: A Comparison of 8 Systems
Many current commercial EHRs have significant limitations in graphing capabilities of laboratory test results and often display results in nonstandardized fashion.
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Better EHR: Usability, workflow and cognitive support in electronic health records
“Better EHR: Usability, Workflow and Cognitive Support in Electronic Health Records” — a book published by the National Center for Cognitive Informatics & Decision Making in Healthcare. One of the biggest complaints we hear from healthcare providers is that the EHR is clunky, difficult to use, and sometimes gets in […]
Development of a Clinician Reputation Metric to Identify Appropriate Problem-Medication Pairs in a Crowdsourced Knowledge Base
BACKGROUND: Correlation of data within electronic health records is necessary for implementation of various clinical decision support functions, including patient summarization. A key type of correlation is linking medications to clinical problems; while some databases of problem-medication links are available, they are not robust and depend on problems and medications […]
Improving Clinical Decision Support Reliability using Anomaly Detection Methods
R01 LM011966 (PI – Adam Wright, PhD 2014-2018) Clinical decision support systems, such as drug-interaction alerts and preventive care reminders, when used effectively, have been shown to the quality, safety and efficiency of care. However, such systems are complex and sometimes fail – these failures are often not noticed for […]
Improving Quality by Maintaining Accurate Problem Lists in the EHR (IQ-MAPLE)
R01HL122225 (PI – Adam Wright, PhD 2014-2018) An accurate, complete clinical problem list the cornerstone of a problem-oriented medical record, and research shows that accurate problem lists improve healthcare quality; however, problem lists are often incomplete. In this study, we will develop and evaluate an intervention to identify gaps in […]
The Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program: Provider Performance on Core and Menu Measures
OBJECTIVE: To measure performance by eligible health care providers on CMS’s meaningful use measures. DATA SOURCE: Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program Eligible Professionals Public Use File (PUF), which contains data on meaningful use attestations by 237,267 eligible providers through May 31, 2013. STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis of the 15 […]
Clinical Decision Support for Colon and Rectal Surgery: An Overview
Clinical decision support (CDS) has been shown to improve clinical processes, promote patient safety, and reduce costs in healthcare settings, and it is now a requirement for clinicians as part of the Meaningful Use Regulation. However, most evidence for CDS has been evaluated primarily in internal medicine care settings, and […]
State of the Art in Clinical Informatics: Evidence and Examples
OBJECTIVE: The field of clinical informatics has expanded substantially in the six decades since its inception. Early research focused on simple demonstrations that health information technology (HIT) such as electronic health records (EHRs), computerized provider order entry (CPOE), and clinical decision support (CDS) systems were feasible and potentially beneficial in […]
Early Results of the Meaningful Use Program for Electronic Health Records
In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act established Medicare and Medicaid incentive programs to encourage the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by hospitals and eligible professionals. Under Medicare, eligible professionals who show “meaningful use” of certified EHRs are eligible for payments up to […]
Health care transformation through collaboration on open-source informatics projects: integrating a medical applications platform, research data repository, and patient summarization
BACKGROUND: The Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program seeks to conquer well-understood challenges in medical informatics through breakthrough research. Two SHARP centers have found alignment in their methodological needs: (1) members of the National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision-making (NCCD) have developed knowledge bases to support problem-oriented […]