Building an allergy reconciliation module to eliminate allergy discrepancies in electronic health records.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Accurate, complete allergy histories are critical for decision-making and medication prescription. However, allergy information is often spread across the electronic health record (EHR); thus, allergy lists are often inaccurate or incomplete. Discrepant allergy information can lead to suboptimal or unsafe clinical care and contribute to alert fatigue. We developed an allergy reconciliation module within Mass General Brigham (MGB)'s EHR to support accurate and intuitive reconciliation of discrepancies in the allergy list, thereby enhancing patient safety.

Materials and methods

We combined data-driven methods and knowledge from domain experts to develop 5 mechanisms to compare allergy information across the EHR and designed a user interface to display discrepancies a

SUBMITTER: Blackley SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12005630 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature