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Observing Provider Utilization of Electronic Health Records to Improve Clinical Quality Metrics

By Kevin Brooks, PhD; Molly Polverento, MSEd, CPH; Laura Houdeshell-Putt, DPH; Erin Sarzynski, MD; and Sabrina Ford, PhD

This study compared changes of healthcare quality in a Michigan Medicaid population before and after physician adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) via the Meaningful Use (MU) program for selected Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) quality of care...
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Evaluation of Physicians’ Electronic Health Records Experience Using Actual and Perceived Measures

By Saif Khairat, PhD; Cameron Coleman, MD; Paige Ottmar, MHA, MSIS; Thomas Bice, MD, MSc; and Shannon S. Carson, MD

Inadequate electronic health record (EHR) interface design hinders the physician-EHR experience, which may lead to increase physician frustration and fatigue levels. The objective of this study was to examine the physician EHR experience by evaluating the congruency between actual and...
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The Next-Generation Electronic Health Record in the ICU: A Focus on User-Technology Interface to Optimize Patient Safety and Quality

By Laleh Jalilian, MD, and Saif Khairat, PhD

As a knowledge-based field of medicine, critical care medicine has benefited from the use of the electronic health records (EHRs) in daily practice, as intensive care unit (ICU) patients generate thousands of pieces of clinical data each day. ICU teams must review, interpret, and take action on...
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Factors That Influence Clinician Experience with Electronic Health Records

By Vimal Mishra, MD, MMCi; David Liebovitz, MD; Michael Quinn, PhD; Le Kang, PhD; Thomas Yackel, MD MBA; and Robert Hoyt, MD, FACP, FAMIA

The objective of this study was to report quantitative and qualitative analyses of features, functionalities, organizational, training, clinical specialties, and other factors that impact electronic health record (EHR) experience based on a survey by two large healthcare systems. A total of...
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A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Standalone Personal Health Record Use by Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

By Kevin T. Fuji, PharmD, MA; Amy A. Abbott, PhD, RN; Kimberly A. Galt, PharmD, PhD, FNAP, FASHP

Self-management of diabetes is key for achieving positive clinical outcomes, with personal health records (PHRs) proposed as a patient-centered technology for facilitating self-care. However, few studies have described patient engagement with a PHR, including facilitators and barriers to use...
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Defining the Medical Record: Relationships of the Legal Medical Record, the Designated Record Set, and the Electronic Health Record

By Phyllis T. Floyd, RN, BSN, MBA, NE-BC; Jim C. Oates, MD; Julie W. Acker; and Robert W. Warren, MD, PhD, MPH.

Not so long ago, defining the “medical record” was simple. It was the paper chart—volume upon volume that captured the serial, dutifully recorded events of a person’s health care at a hospital or physician’s office. Entries were typically handwritten, dated and...
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