Health Care Worker Usage of Large-Scale Health Information Exchanges in Japan: User-Level Audit Log Analysis Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over 200 health information exchanges (HIEs) are currently operational in Japan. The most common feature of HIEs is remote on-demand viewing or searching of aggregated patient health data from multiple institutions. However, the usage of this feature by individual users and institutions remains unknown.

Objective

This study aims to understand usage of the on-demand patient data viewing feature of large-scale HIEs by individual health care workers and institutions in Japan.

Methods

We conducted audit log analyses of large-scale HIEs. The research subjects were HIEs connected to over 100 institutions and with over 10,000 patients. Each health care worker's profile and audit log data for HIEs were collected. We conducted four types of analyses on the extracted

SUBMITTER: Suzumoto J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11481819 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature