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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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www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-dorr.html
December 01, 2022 - Key to the coordination is sharing information from electronic health records (EHRs), but most EHRs cannot … system (ICCIS) to determine whether it could be implemented in a diverse set of clinics using certified EHRs … Despite the near universal adoption of EHRs (which has resulted in an increased amount of clinical data
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www.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
1.
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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/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/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/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-costs-and-benefits-database/predicting-adoption-electronic
the Bass Model System Penetration: The model predicts that by 2014 about 62% of practices will have EHRs … Best estimate of the time until 90% of practices have EHRs is beyond 2020. … Extrinsic Factors in valuing cost and benefits: EHRs represent a disruptive change, cost subsidies in
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42250/psn-pdf
June 03, 2013 - long-term-follow-evaluation-electronic-health-record-prescribing-safety
Many institutions are now moving from relatively unsophisticated electronic health records (EHRs … Prior studies have also shown that at least 1
year of use is required to obtain the safety benefits of EHRs … provides an excellent example of
the ongoing monitoring and adaptation required to effectively implement EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/final-report/section2.html
October 01, 2015 - charts) and developing workarounds with their EHRs. … These strategies included using various combinations of EHRs, personal health records (PHRs), and HIE … The diversity of EHRs used by practices and the amount of modifications needed to those EHRs further … Practice staff often needed training and TA to effectively use their EHRs. … Comparing the Children’s EHR Format with existing EHRs was challenging but valuable.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/necessary-but-not-sufficient-hitech-act-white-paper.pdf
January 01, 2011 - ..........................................................9
The Concept of Meaningful Use of EHRs … PHRs are the patient counterpart to
EHRs, although EHRs are far more common right now and are receiving … In sum, comprehensive EHRs, and to a lesser extent basic EHRs, can support the medical
home in important … Thus, the question is how practices are currently implementing health IT, and
particularly EHRs, so … Finally, the comprehensive, team-based-care principle could be compromised if EHRs
codify workflows
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/implementation/Rachman%202-I%20CHB.pdf
July 05, 2000 - Implement EHRS in a network of Community
Health Centers in a manner that ensures
consistency and accuracy … Utilize the EHRS/data warehouse to facilitate
and encourage the use of evidence-based
practice measures … Utilize the EHRS/data warehouse to facilitate
continuous improvement of health care
quality and safety … Promote and support the realization of the
full potential of EHRS use in ambulatory care
settings, … Backup / Recovery
Security Management
Summary
Securing the right IT expertise is a challenge in
EHRS
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/assessing-relationship-between-patient-safety-culture-and-ehr-strategy
December 21, 2018 - Early adopters of EHRs did appear to have a stronger culture of safety, but this finding could either … mean that EHRs improved safety or that hospitals that emphasized other measures to improve safety culture … also tended to adopt EHRs earlier.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/healthitresourcelist.pdf
January 01, 2019 - liability insurance companies) improve reporting of unsafe conditions associated with health IT
and EHRs … stakeholders to develop best practices and recommendations for copying and pasting health
information in EHRs … Eight Top Challenges and Solutions for Making EHRs Usable
https://wire.ama-assn.org/practice-management … This list was created
by a panel of experts and focuses on leveraging the potential of EHRs to enhance … Primer: Electronic Health Records
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primers/primer/43/electronic-health-records
EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/prospectscare/prospects2.html
July 01, 2018 - The Meaningful Use measures will enable further care coordination measurement using data from EHRs to … However, linking APCD data with EHRs is currently only possible within the limited number of States that … Currently, the ability to link APCD data with outside data sources, such as EHRs, is possible in only … Given that there is currently no usual location where outside information is stored within EHRs, and … One panelist noted that linking EHRs to patient registries would offer another potentially rich data
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49691/psn-pdf
September 01, 2013 - /psnet.ahrq.gov//#references
Of the hospitals and providers who have not already made the move to EHRs … financial payments given to eligible hospitals and
providers who follow a set of standards in using EHRs … Implementation of EHRs is known to be challenging, regardless of whether a provider or organization is … that can be identified from the experiences of organizations in implementing EHRs.(7,10-12) These are … Transitioning between
ambulatory EHRs: a study of practitioners' perspectives.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight05.pdf
September 08, 2015 - • Investigating a model format for pediatric
electronic health records (EHRs). … rewards participating health
systems for reporting any of the
Child Core Set measures from their
EHRs … • Commitment to EHRs as the quality
infrastructure. … The
Pennsylvania project sets its sights on
EHRs as the infrastructure for quality
measurement and … improvement and
rewards health systems that use EHRs
accordingly.
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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/sites/default/files/docs/activity/r18hs018275-parsons-annual-summary-2012.pdf
January 01, 2012 - community health care providers to
improve quality of care through the use of electronic health records (EHRs … The New York City Primary Care Information Project
(PCIP) is comparing the implementation of EHRs at … 80 small ambulatory primary care practices that are
early adopters of EHRs and part of an integrated … of paper records provided historical data on quality performance
prior to the implementation of the EHRs … After the EHRs were implemented, a manual review of electronic
records was conducted for comparison.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/865883/psn-pdf
May 15, 2024 - Design and user issues are persistent detractors from the reliability of electronic health records (EHRs … This piece explores the lack of knowledge regarding the intersection of EHRs and
diagnostic error.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/provider-engagement-slides-031511.pdf
March 15, 2011 - Using
Electronic Health Records for
Research:
Challenges and Mitigation Strategies
Using EHRs … version upgrades, enhancement
requests typically take longer to implement than
planned
Using EHRs … for Research:
Setting the Stage (III)
Limitations of EHRs for Research Studies
– Most EHR … for Research: Setting the Stage
Using EHRs for Research: Setting the Stage (II)
Using EHRs for Research … : Setting the Stage (III)
Using EHRs for Research: Setting the Stage (IV)
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