electronic medical record (EMR); electronic health record (EHR)
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Introduction
Entry, retrieval & maintenance of medical records in electronic form (computerized medical record). Popular electronic medical records include Epic, Cerner, & eClinicalWorks.[20]
Procedure
- doctors do not have to redocument medical student entries for parts of Medicare claims[15]
Complications
- "alerts rendered meaningless by their sheer number"[7]
- primary care physicians receive ~77 notifications daily[9]
- dismissing concerns of the people who must use EHRs
- physicians who voice reservations to EHRs may be labeled "technophobic, resistant, & uncooperative"[7]
- frequent computer use by clinicians during patient visits may negatively affect communication & patient satisfaction[8]
- use of electronic medical records does not adverse affect inpatient outcomes[10]
- difficult to use electronic medical records linked to physician burnout[18]
- inadvertantly selecting "Walking Corpse Syndrome" from dropdown menu[16]
Notes
- no other industry has been under a universal mandate to adopt a new technology before its effects are fully understood[7]
- operational productivity in the emergency department has remained unchanged by EMRs[4]
- poorly designed EMRs can detract from the patient encounter rather than enhance it[5]
- 0.11% of adverse safety events attributed to EMR[17]
- 0.03% suggested EHR usability contributed to patient harm
- usability challenges include
- data entry (27%)
- safety alerts (22%)
- interoperability (18%)
- visual display (9%)
- availability of information (9%)
- system automation & defaults (8%)
- workflow support (7%)
- usability challenges occurred during
- order placement (38%)
- medication administration (37%)
- review of results (16%)
- documentation (9%)[17]
- usability challenges include
- 0.03% suggested EHR usability contributed to patient harm
- ~1/3 of ophthalmologists' time with patients is spent using their electronic health record[13]
- EMR should provide concise, context sensitive, real-time data uncluttered by extraneous information[5]
- data to be easily shared with other healthcare facilities[5]
- users should be able to provide feedback easily[5]
- 49% of physicians' office hours are spent on EHR & desk work while 27% was spent directly with patients[11]
- physicians in ambulatory care spend ~16 minutes/encounter actively using an electronic health record[19]
- speech recognition more error prone & time consuming than keyboard/mouse data entry for emergency department doctors entering electronic medical records[14]
- hackers may 'bring down' a hospital information system, then hold the hospital(s) ransom to restore access[12]
More general terms
Additional terms
- electronic health information exchange (HIE)
- meaningful use of electronic health records
- safety alert
References
- ↑ Journal Watch 25(10):81, 2005 Garrido T, Jamieson L, Zhou Y, Wiesenthal A, Liang L. Effect of electronic health records in ambulatory care: retrospective, serial, cross sectional study. BMJ. 2005 Mar 12;330(7491):581. <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15760999 <Internet> http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/330/7491/581
- ↑ Journal Watch 25(10):81-82, 2005 Johnson KB, Serwint JR, Fagan LM, Thompson RE, Wilson MH. Computer-based documentation: effect on parent and physician satisfaction during a pediatric health maintenance encounter. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005 Mar;159(3):250-4. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15753268
- ↑ Schiff GD, Bates DW. Can electronic clinical documentation help prevent diagnostic errors? N Engl J Med. 2010 Mar 25;362(12):1066-9. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20335582
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ward MJ et al. The effect of electronic health record implementation on community emergency department operational measures of performance. Ann Emerg Med 2014 Jun; 63:723 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24412667
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Young K, Sadoughi S, Saitz R AMA Recommends 8 Ways EHRs Can Be Improved Physician's First Watch. September 18, 2014 David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief https://download.ama-assn.org/resources/doc/ps2/x-pub/ehr-priorities.pdf
- ↑ Payne TH et al Report of the AMIA EHR 2020 Task Force on the Status and Future Direction of EHRs. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 May 28 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26024883 <Internet> http://jamia.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/05/22/jamia.ocv066
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Rosenbaum L Transitional Chaos or Enduring Harm? The EHR and the Disruption of Medicine. N Engl J Med 2015; 373:1585-1588. October 22, 2015. <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26488690 <Internet> http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1509961
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ratanawongsa N et al Association Between Clinician Computer Use and Communication With Patients in Safety-Net Clinics. JAMA Intern Med. Published online November 30, 2015 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26619393 <Internet> http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2473628
Frankel RM Computers in the Examination Room JAMA Intern Med. Published online November 30, 2015. <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26619228 <Internet> http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2473626 - ↑ 9.0 9.1 Murphy DR, Meyer AN, Russo E The Burden of Inbox Notifications in Commercial Electronic Health Records. JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Apr 1;176(4):559-60. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26974737
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Barnett ML et al Adverse inpatient outcomes during the transition to a new electronic health record system: observational study. BMJ 2016;354:i3835 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27471242 <Internet> http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i3835
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Sinsky C, Colligan L, Li L et al Allocation of Physician Time in Ambulatory Practice: A Time and Motion Study in 4 Specialties. Ann Intern Med. Published online 6 September 2016 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27595430 <Internet> http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2546704
Hingle S Electronic Health Records: An Unfulfilled Promise and a Call to Action. Ann Intern Med. Published online 6 September 2016 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27595501 <Internet> http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2546705 - ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chinthapalli K Heads Up. The hackers holding hospitals to ransom. BMJ 2017;357:j2214 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28490432 <Internet> http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2214
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Read-Brown S, Hribar MR, Reznick LG et al Time Requirements for Electronic Health Record Use in an Academic Ophthalmology Center. JAMA Ophthalmol. Published online October 12, 2017 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29049512 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/2656337
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Hodgson T, Magrabi F, Coiera E. Efficiency and safety of speech recognition for documentation in the electronic health record. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017;24:1127-1133 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29016971 https://psnet.ahrq.gov/resources/resource/31516
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Young KD Doctors Don't Need to Redocument Students' EHR Entries: CMS Medscape - Feb 15, 2018. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/892715
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Burton JR The Walking Corpse Syndrome: Geriatrics and the Electronic Health Record. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2018 Feb 20 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29461624 <Internet> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.15293/full
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Howe JL, Adams KT, Hettinger AZ, et al Electronic Health Record Usability Issues and Potential Contribution to Patient Harm. JAMA. 2018;319(12):1276-1278 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29584833 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2676098
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Melnick ER et al The Association Between Perceived Electronic Health Record Usability and Professional Burnout Among US Physicians Mayo Clinic Proceedings Nov 2019 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31735343 https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(19)30836-5/fulltext
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Overhage JM, Jr DM. Physician Time Spent Using the Electronic Health Record During Outpatient Encounters: A Descriptive Study. Ann Intern Med. 2020. Jan 14. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31931523 https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2758843/physician-time-spent-using-electronic-health-record-during-outpatient-encounters
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Brodke D Electronic Medical Records Are Strangling American Medicine. The implications for burnout are staggering MedPage Today. October 23, 2022 https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/101354
- ↑ SelectHub Top EMR Software https://www.selecthub.com/emr-software/