Researchers sought to design a system that incorporates extractable data into the electronic health record system to pull Cancer on Commission metrics for use in clinical research and quality improvement initiatives.
Researchers feed a series of scenarios involving poor or negative outcomes into various hospitals’ EHR systems to measure their safety in detecting dangerous medication errors.
Researchers report on awareness and access to health information technology by minority patients and caregivers, as well as their interest in learning more about and using EMRs.
Physician-rated EHR usability independently linked to odds of burnout.
A retrospective analysis of inquiries via EAPathways determined how likely the tool was to encourage patient enrollment in clinical trials.
A team approach to creating a centralized location for the clinical summary within the EMR had a significant effect on coordination of pretransplant care.
The researchers found that individual breaches affected a range of 500 to 78.8 million records.
Clinicians and patients use this technology to monitor health, behaviors, and treatment outcomes.
A navigator offers her take on how the ideal EHR system could unify the oncology care team toward the common goal of optimal patient outcomes.
Suggestions were offered on how to make EHRs more functional in practice, and reduce the associated regulatory burden.
