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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/survey-codebook-ehr.html
March 01, 2021 - Incontinence
Tools for Change
EvidenceNOW: Practice Survey Codebook, EHRs … This code book was used by the national evaluators for questions related to electronic health records (EHRs … originally created January 2019
Internet Citation: EvidenceNOW: Practice Survey Codebook, EHRs
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/research-results/results/infographics/ehr-text.html
April 01, 2019 - Nearly all participating practices used EHRs, and a large number of EHR vendors were represented within … Use of EHRs Before EvidenceNOW
Before EvidenceNOW:
93 percent of primary care practices used EHRs … What Could Practices Do with Their EHRs Before EvidenceNOW? … In relation to use of EHRs for heart health:
42 percent produced quality measure reports on aspirin … Did EvidenceNOW Practices Use EHRs to share Data and Monitor Quality?
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/tools-and-resources/pbrn-literature/monitoring-suicidal-patients-primary-care-using-electronic
January 01, 2022 - suicide often come into contact with primary care providers, many of whom use electronic health records (EHRs … It is not known, however, how often suicide ideation or attempts are documented in EHRs. … CONCLUSIONS: Few cases of suicidal ideation and attempt were documented in patients' EHRs using diagnostic … Increased documentation of suicidal ideation and behaviors in patients' EHRs may improve their monitoring
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/AHRQ-PBRN-Webinar-EHR-Functionality-for-PC-022814.pdf
February 28, 2014 - Integrated care
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Question #2: Which primary care
attribute do you think EHRs currently
best … Incorporate patient perspectives into EHRs
5. … lack Functionality
EHRs Lack PEDIATRIC Functions! … Question #2: Which primary care attribute do you think EHRs currently best support? … lack Functionality
EHRs Lack PEDIATRIC Functions!
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/111014-Meeting-Summary-Final.pdf
November 10, 2014 - Use of EHR Data in Pragmatic Research Trials
• As the use of EHRs in pragmatic clinical trials increases … Department of Health and Human Services
approaches, and those practices with EHRs managed externally … collaboration with an EHR vendor and involves putting a server in
practices with read-only access to EHRs … Solutions
• As described above, expensive tools pose a significant challenge for practices to utilize EHRs … • The challenge lies in how to demonstrate to PBRNs that EHRs are a better use of resources than
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-mcginn.html
January 01, 2024 - Contracts
Grantee Profile
Integrating Clinical Prediction Rules into EHRs … This 3-year grant, which built on his earlier work in EHRs, allowed the researchers to develop, test, … originally created December 2023
Internet Citation: Integrating Clinical Prediction Rules into EHRs
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/focus-diagnostic-safety.html
March 01, 2023 - Other projects explore the challenges and opportunities that electronic health records (EHRs) present … These efforts aim to leverage the vast amounts of data stored in EHRs, and the potential to improve the … display of the information in EHRs, to facilitate diagnosis.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/patient-safety-technology-resources.pdf
May 01, 2023 - liability insurance companies) improve reporting of unsafe conditions associated with health IT
and EHRs … can make a big difference in maximizing office efficiencies and improving
care coordination using EHRs … This list was created
by a panel of experts and focuses on leveraging the potential of EHRs to enhance … https://wire.ama-assn.org/practice-management/8-top-challenges-and-solutions-making-ehrs-usable
https … Eight Top Challenges and Solutions for Making EHRs Usable
V. General Resources
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/index.html
March 01, 2024 - Primary care practices are incredibly creative, dedicated, and resilient, even with problematic EHRs … EHRs often do not provide primary care practices with access to the data they need to improve care quality … provide timely feedback data to primary care practices to drive QI, given the limitations of current EHRs
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/keydrivers/optimize-health-it.html
November 01, 2018 - Responsibilities can include making changes to documentation in EHRs, developing auditing tools, designing … EHRs are nearly universal in primary care practices, yet their potential to be catalysts for the use … However, some EHRs are better at supporting QI and QI measurement than others. … Maximizing the use of EHRs to attain actionable data may require working closely with the EHR vendor.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/oklahoma.html
March 01, 2021 - Information technology support to help practices make more effective use of their electronic health records (EHRs … obtain ABCS data from the State’s HIEO and supplement them with measures generated by the practices' EHRs … However, the Cooperative found that certified EHRs often don't have the necessary capability to document … anticipated and the measures from the HIEO sometimes differ substantially from those generated by the EHRs … The challenges faced by the Oklahoma Cooperative in working with EHRs and the HIEO highlight the importance
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/meeting-summary-031720.pdf
July 23, 2020 - The recently released Strategy on Reducing Burden Relating to the Use of
Health IT and EHRs represents … www.healthit.gov/topic/usability-and-provider-burden/strategy-reducing-burden-relating-use-health-it-and-ehrs … www.healthit.gov/topic/usability-and-provider-burden/strategy-reducing-burden-relating-use-health-it-and-ehrs
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/methods/index.html
March 01, 2021 - Cooperatives and practices used EHRs to extract ABCS clinical quality measures data to answer the initiative … Regional EvidenceNOW cooperatives also supported practices to improve how providers input data into their EHRs … developed resources for practice facilitators to support practice-based models of generating reports using EHRs … Because of the challenges in generating trustworthy and credible reports from EHRs, some cooperatives
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/evidencenow-story.pdf
September 01, 2021 - Primary care practices are incredibly creative, dedicated,
and resilient, even with problematic EHRs … EHRs often do not provide primary care practices with access
to the data they need to improve care … provide timely feedback data to primary care
practices to drive QI, given the limitations of current EHRs
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/medication-mgmt-sample-process.pdf
January 12, 2017 - patient engagement and to accommodate primary care
practices that do not use electronic health records (EHRs … If your practice uses EHRs, ensure that the medication list in the record is updated
appropriately. … If your practice does not use EHRs, note any corrections or changes on the paper Medication
List form … If your practice uses EHRs, provide the patient with a printout of the complete and accurate
medication … If your practice does not use EHRs, provide the patient with a paper copy of the medication
list only
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/cooperatives/evidencenow-executive-summary-ok.pdf
November 01, 2017 - technology support to help practices make
more effective use of their electronic health records
(EHRs … obtain
ABCS data from the State’s HIEO and supplement them with
measures generated by the practices’ EHRs … However, the
Cooperative found that certified EHRs often don’t have the
necessary capability to document … anticipated and the measures from
the HIEO sometimes differ substantially from those generated
by the EHRs … The challenges faced by the Oklahoma Cooperative in
working with EHRs and the HIEO highlight the importance
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/863.html
May 01, 2023 - majority of diagnostic errors are at least partially caused by problems with electronic health records (EHRs … Of 199 diagnosis-related claims, EHRs were considered a potential contributor to diagnostic errors in … The authors concluded that the study findings illustrated the central role of EHRs for supporting the
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/takeheart/training/implementing-automatic-referral/index.html
April 01, 2023 - Clinical Informatics, Office of Quality & Risk, Emory Healthcare
This webinar for hospitals with Cerner EHRs … Decision Support, Mass General Brigham Digital Health eCare
This webinar for hospitals with Epic EHRs
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/virginia.html
March 01, 2021 - participating practices to develop solutions to make it easier to obtain accurate and timely data from the EHRs … some cases, staff obtained de-identified and encrypted continuity of care documents (CCDs) from the EHRs … The other major lesson from this national program is that most EHRs are not ready to provide the kind
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/model/index.html
March 01, 2023 - other quality improvement supports they need to use their technology {e.g., electronic health records (EHRs … findings from EvidenceNOW was uncovering the many challenges faced by primary care practices in using EHRs … Data can come from within the practice—from its registries, EHRs, or chart audits—or from eternal sources