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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/barriers-and-facilitators-implementation-and-adoption-ehr-home-care/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - population, more home health agencies in the United States are implementing electronic health records (EHRs … The impact of implementing EHRs in hospital and ambulatory care settings has been studied, but little … research has been done on implementing EHRs in home care settings. … recommendations from the research team on developing Meaningful Use criteria specific for home care EHRs
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/childrens-ehr-format-enhancement
January 01, 2023 - It also provided guidance to users about the ideal functionality of EHRs for children. … The Format, released in 2013, was well received by software developers, practitioners using EHRs in the … care of children, and provider organizations purchasing and configuring EHRs. … It is hoped that the adaptation of EHRs used in the care of children to meet the 2015 Priority List requirements
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/cardio-hit-phase-ii
January 01, 2023 - payers, policymakers, performance measure developers, and product vendors of electronic health records (EHRs … evaluate the relative accuracy of reported exceptions, and identify the location of exception data in EHRs … performance measures for coronary artery disease (CAD) and heart failure (HF) within existing practice site EHRs … sites, and detailed data on reported performance and exceptions that were extracted from the practices' EHRs … Retrospective manual reviews of the EHRs were conducted on a sample of 538 CAD and 559 HF patients with
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/choosing-what-clinicians-see-electronic-health-record-can-reduce-cognitive-burden-and-improve
January 01, 2023 - Increased provider cognitive burden risks to patient safety from poor EHR design
While the use of EHRs … has transformed care, EHRs can often pose a burden for clinicians. … Displays in EHRs often force clinicians to navigate through multiple menus and screens to access patient … School of Medicine wanted to know if there was a way to let clinicians decide what information from EHRs
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-quality-pediatric-emergency-care-using-electronic-medical-record/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - The increasing use of electronic heath records (EHRs) in EDs provides an opportunity to access patient … EHRs also have the potential to develop patient registries using electronic abstraction instead of the … Abstracting data in an automated way from EHRs could make it possible to evaluate the quality of patient … Thereafter, the data dictionary was translated into an XML schema that reflects how the variables map to the EHRs … The goal is to pull data from the EHRs using the data dictionary and schema and have it de-identified
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017067-kaushal-final-report-2011.pdf
January 01, 2011 - This is important, because use of EHRs is not static. … Thus, EHRs with HIE are an important and evolving aspect of health care
delivery. … The effect of EHRs with HIE on quality are still unclear. … effects of EHRs with health information exchange, has never been more important. … Adoption of EHRs is increasing steeply with the meaningful use program.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/advancing-population-and-public-health-reporting-and-outcomes-vaccination-data-exchange-approve
January 01, 2024 - to retrieve vaccination history from MIIC and offer clinical decision support for immunizations from EHRs … an evolving interoperability tool for electronic vaccination data exchange across public health and EHRs … Despite integration rates of 83 percent of MIIC within EHRs and frequent EHR queries of approximately … The electronic data exchange between MIIC and EHRs is crucial so that providers can quickly query and … Of the healthcare systems studied, 83 percent had MIIC access integrated into their EHRs with an average
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/developing-guide-identifying-and-remediating-unintended-consequences
January 01, 2023 - Patient Safety
While there are many benefits to the use of electronic health records (EHRs … This intersection of complex environments and technologies creates subtle unintended consequences when EHRs … research conducted by the project team, and interviews with organizations that recently implemented EHRs … Users of EHRs, such as physicians and nurses, may also find the guide useful.
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digital.ahrq.gov/2020-year-review/research-summary/using-natural-language-processing-improve-autism-spectrum-disorder-research-and-care
January 01, 2020 - Difficulty of accessing unstructured data for decision making
The use of electronic health records (EHRs … on autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) to show how extracting and coding information from free text in EHRs … sought to create methods and tools for leveraging existing and detailed ASD patient information in EHRs … and evaluated natural language processing algorithms to identify ASD behaviors within free text in EHRs
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/schade-cp-et-al-2006-e
January 01, 2006 - Workflow-Related Findings
"The UK physicians uniformly stated that EHRs had improved efficiency, … They did not all agree that EHRs actually saved physician time." … "Record legibility and good documentation were popular reasons for adopting EHRs among UK physicians; … "Even [EHRs] that merely replace handwritten prescriptions with computer printed ones, achieve [substantial
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/09-10-0091-2-EF.pdf
October 01, 2009 - • Identifying and evaluating existing evidence-based style sheets and guidelines for EHRs. … • Identifying and evaluating innovative ways to display complex information in EHRs. … Each offers particular insight into the design and
development of more effective EHRs. … • Identifying and evaluating existing evidence-based style sheets and guidelines for EHRs. … • Identifying and evaluating innovative ways to display information in EHRs.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/value-health-information-exchange-ambulatory-care/annual-summary/2009
January 01, 2009 - the point at which cost or expenses and benefit are equal) more quickly than deploying full function EHRs … This insight may suggest an approach that leverages HIE and less sophisticated EHRs to create value that … can then be invested in deploying full function EHRs. … The savings generated from deploying EHRs with a reduced feature set can be invested to support deployment … of fully interoperable EHRs.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-electronic-health-records-patient-education-materials/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - assess whether patient education materials, including those delivered by electronic health records (EHRs … assess the understandability and actionability of patient education materials that can be provided via EHRs … vendors about the availability of the PEMAT and effective patient education capabilities and features of EHRs … Preliminary Impact and Findings: The findings from the review of patient education capabilities of EHRs
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/advancing-public-health-interoperable-data-exchange
January 01, 2023 - Additionally, the interoperability between MIIC and widely used electronic health records (EHRs) at healthcare … The electronic data exchange between MIIC and EHRs is crucial so that providers can quickly query and … second is an evolving tool for bidirectional exchange to retrieve vaccination history from MIIC through EHRs … Of the healthcare systems studied, 83 percent had MIIC access integrated into their EHRs with an average
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/american-medical-informatics-association-health-policy-conference
January 01, 2023 - Invitational, held in September 2015, was titled “Unlocking the Potential of Electronic Health Records (EHRs … ): How Policymakers Can Impact the Ongoing Evolution of EHRs.” … Speakers from both the private and public sectors discussed their visions for how EHRs need to evolve … participants examined issues related to the possibilities and pitfalls of reaching near universal adoption of EHRs
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/barriers-and-facilitators-implementation-and-adoption-ehr-home-care/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - population, more home health agencies in the United States are implementing electronic health records (EHRs … The impact of implementing EHRs in hospital and ambulatory care settings has been studied but little … research on implementing EHRs in home care settings has been conducted. … recommendations from the research team on developing Meaningful Use criteria specific for home care EHRs
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/use-dense-display-data-and-information-design-principles-primary-care-health
January 01, 2023 - usability and information design shortcomings as reasons for poor adoption of electronic health records (EHRs … Little systematic evidence has been gathered on the usability of EHRs in practices and how their design … Further, the role of EHRs in patient care is evolving significantly as adoption is incentivized, health … This involves indicating how EHRs are and are not being used optimally.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r18hs026196-Spyropoulos-final-report-2022.pdf
January 01, 2022 - suite of
individual CDS solutions capable of being integrated into clinical workflows within various EHRs … When we had originally conceived of the study, Northwell employed
multiple EHRs and our plan was to … The front-end interface consists of clinician-facing EHRs and the CDS apps. … These front-end EHRs are responsible for launching and running the browser based CDS apps. … The back-end data exchange consists of the EvidencePoint API and the back end EHRs.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/optimizing-electronic-health-record-cardiac-care
January 01, 2023 - Clinical Workflow
Human Factors
Technology Usability
As electronic health records (EHRs … This research studied the usability of EHRs, as used by cardiac care physicians and nurses, to inform … a framework for clinician-centered design for EHRs that was validated with a fully functional EHR prototype … To evaluate clinicians' wants, needs, and barriers to using their current EHRs, simulated patients were … present complex clinical case scenarios to clinicians, who documented those scenarios in their own EHRs
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/BarrierstoMeaningfulUseAppendixF.pdf
October 31, 2013 - What have you heard about EHRs from them?
b. … What concerns or worries about using EHRs
might you have based on what you’ve heard?
c. … of
EHRs? … Moderator: Question IV-
AB-12, ask about benefits of
using EHRs beyond EHR
Incentive payments. … Guide.):
• Awareness of peers
who have had success
with EHRs
• Belief there is
evidence that EHRs