Designing a Medication Timeline for Patients and Physicians
This on-demand webinar does not offer CE credit.
Lead author Jeffery L. Belden will discuss this month's JAMIA Journal Club selection:
Belden JL, et al. Designing a medication timeline for patients and physicians. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2018 Dec 24.
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Presenter
Jeffery L. Belden
Moderator/Manager
Kelson Zawack, PhD
Tiffany J. Callahan, MPH, PhD Candidate
Statement of Purpose
In the United States, physicians are seeking ways to improve the safety of their electronic health records (EHRs), and to reduce the time, effort, and cognitive load while using them in the face of an aging population with an increasingly complex chronic disease burden. Physicians are facing increasing levels of burnout, partially due to dissatisfaction with the workload and lack of usability associated with using their EHRs.
A major issue in the outpatient setting is that ambulatory patients with chronic disease typically have multiple morbidities and may take many medications. Longer medication lists are more complex to read, and it is more difficult to perceive the historical treatment course. In primary care practices, there are unmet needs for reducing cognitive load and improving efficiency using the EHR. Making treatment decisions without the full array of necessary clinical patient information increases the risk of medication errors.
Clinical informaticians who share these issues in their own work settings will consider the evidence for a solution proposed in this JAMIA Journal Club. Lead author Jeffery L. Belden presents an approach that incorporates data visualization design principles in the EHR with outcomes including improved clinician speed and accuracy in ascertaining clinical information.
Target Audience
The target audience for this activity is professionals and students interested in biomedical and health informatics.
Learning Objectives
The general learning objective for all of the JAMIA Journal Club webinars is that participants will
- Use a critical appraisal process to assess article validity and to gauge article findings' relevance to practice
After this live activity, the participant should be better able to:
- Identify design principles associated with each of the medication timeline prototype's key features and appreciate the human cognition features that support the design choices.
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Disclosures for this Activity
These faculty, planners, and staff who are in a position to control the content of this activity disclose that they and their life partners have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests:
JAMIA Journal Club Faculty: Jeffery Belden
JAMIA Journal Club planners: Michael Chiang, Kelson Zawack, Tiffany J. Callahan
AMIA staff: Susanne Arnold, Pesha Rubinstein