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Extracting Data from the Electronic Health Record of Patients with ADHD Reveals Pediatricians’ Discussions of Educational Support and Document Collection

Katherine Tennant Beenen, PhD, Nicole Garton, MD, Emily Carroll, BA, Ashley Tang, BS, Shamsi Berry, PhD, Kevin H. Lee, PhD, Theresa McGoff, MBA, RN, Neelkamal Soares, MD

Primary care physicians (PCPs) have an important role in the identification and management of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). There is a paucity of research on PCPs’ practices related to the discussion of educational interventions. We conducted a retrospective chart review...
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Medical Scribes: Symptom or Cause of Impeded Evolution of a Transformative Artificial Intelligence in the Electronic Health Record?

By George A. Gellert, MD, MPH, MPA, FABPM

Studies have quantified various specific benefits related to the use of medical scribes, finding physician workflow and productivity improvements, with some demonstrating marginal value or detrimental impact. However, this evidence base misses a critical underlying issue with the expanding...
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Quality Assessment of the Road Traffic Health and Safety Apps with a Focus on the Five Rights of Information Management

By Hossein Aghayari; Leila R Kalankesh, PhD; Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, MD, PhD; and Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi, PhD

The expansion of mobile applications as a tool for road traffic health and safety may develop several issues from the perspective of information management. Quality assessment of these apps, especially from an information system management perspective, appears inevitable, as their possible low...
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Determinants Affecting the Health Information Sharing Management and Practice for Patient Referral in Thailand: The Perceptions of Patients and Healthcare Professionals

By Veerawan Aumpanseang, Kamonchanok Suthiwartnarueput, and Pongsa Pornchaiwiseskul

Despite the cooperative sharing of health information exchange (HIE), various distinct limitations and barriers are found (i.e., substantial time and resources are being used to achieve health information). This paper investigates the limits of healthcare information sharing policy...
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Rural Access and Usage of Patient Portals: A 2019 Health Information National Trends Survey Analysis

By Grishma P. Bhavsar, PhD, MPH; Ashley S. Robertson, PhD, JD; and Dalton Pena, MSHA

To examine differences in rural and urban respondents’ use of and access to patient portals in the United States, this study used the 2019 National Cancer Institute’s Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) 5, Cycle 3. A cross-sectional secondary data analysis utilizing...
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Human Factors in Electronic Health Records Cybersecurity Breach: An Exploratory Analysis

By Liu Hua Yeo, MS, and James Banfield, PhD

The healthcare sector continues to be the industry suffering one of the highest costs of a data security breach. Healthcare lags behind other industries in cybersecurity preparedness despite advances in cybersecurity technologies. Technical safeguards to protect electronic health records must be...
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