Differences in Health Professionals' Engagement With Electronic Health Records Based on Inpatient Race and Ethnicity.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

US health professionals devote a large amount of effort to engaging with patients' electronic health records (EHRs) to deliver care. It is unknown whether patients with different racial and ethnic backgrounds receive equal EHR engagement.

Objective

To investigate whether there are differences in the level of health professionals' EHR engagement for hospitalized patients according to race or ethnicity during inpatient care.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study analyzed EHR access log data from 2 major medical institutions, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Northwestern Medicine (NW Medicine), over a 3-year period from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2020. The study included all adult patients (aged ≥18 years) who were d

SUBMITTER: Yan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10562942 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature