Behavioral Phenotypes in Electronic Health Record Use by Primary Care Providers: a Cluster Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The use of electronic health record (EHR) systems varies among primary care providers (PCPs). However, little is known about how numerous different EHR use behaviors, such as time spent and collaboration in the EHR, cluster together. Prior efforts to quantify characteristics of PCPs using EHRs have generally focused on single behaviors.

Objective

To identify patterns of EHR use among PCPs using a data-driven clustering approach.

Design

Cross-sectional study analyzing EHR data from the 2021 calendar year.

Participants

Primary care providers practicing in a large Massachusetts healthcare system.

Approach

PCPs were assigned to groups based on patterns of EHR use across 30 monthly variables from EHR data using a k-means clustering approach. We use

SUBMITTER: Jungo KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12612465 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature