Impacts of an Electronic Health Record Transition on Veterans Health Administration Health Professions Trainee Experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adoption of electronic health care records (EHRs) has proliferated since 2000. While EHR transitions are widely understood to be disruptive, little attention has been paid to their effect on health professions trainees' (HPTs) ability to learn and conduct work. Veterans Health Administration's (VA) massive transition from its homegrown EHR (CPRS/Vista) to the commercial Oracle Cerner presents an unparalleled-in-scope opportunity to gain insight on trainee work functions and their ability to obtain requisite experience during transitions.

Objective

To identify how an organizational EHR transition affected HPT work and learning at the third VA go-live site.

Design

A formative mixed-method evaluation of HPT experiences with VHA's EHR transition including inter

SUBMITTER: Ahlness EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10593679 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature