Given relatively less favorable health outcomes in rural Alabama, electronic health records (EHRs) have an even greater potential to improve quality and alleviate disparities if meaningfully used.
Author(s): Houser, S H, Au, D, Weech-Maldonado, R
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2011-01-RA-0001
Effective communication is essential to safe and efficient patient care. Additionally, many health information technology (HIT) developments, innovations, and standards aim to implement processes to improve data quality and integrity of electronic health records (EHR) for the purpose of clinical information exchange and communication.
Author(s): Collins, S A, Bakken, S, Vawdrey, D K, Coiera, E, Currie, L
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2011-02-RA-0011
Data from clinical care is increasingly being used for research purposes. The i2b2 platform has been introduced in some US research communities as a tool for data integration and querying by clinical users. The purpose of this project was to assess the applicability of i2b2 in Germany regarding use cases, functionality and integration with privacy enhancing tools.
Author(s): Ganslandt, T, Mate, S, Helbing, K, Sax, U, Prokosch, H U
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2010-09-CR-0051
There is little data on the effect of the EHR on emergency department (ED) efficiency.
Author(s): Mathison, Dj, Chamberlain, Jm
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2010-08-RA-0046
OBJECTIVE: To support collaboration and clinician-targeted decision support, electronic health records (EHRs) must contain accurate information about patients' care providers. The objective of this study was to evaluate two approaches for care provider identification employed within a commercial EHR at a large academic medical center. METHODS: We performed a retrospective review of EHR data for 121 patients in two cardiology wards during a four-week period. System audit logs of chart [...]
Author(s): Vawdrey, David K, Wilcox, Lauren G, Collins, Sarah, Feiner, Steven, Mamykina, Olena, Stein, Daniel M, Bakken, Suzanne, Fred, Matthew R, Stetson, Peter D
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2011-05-RA-0034