Association of Electronic Health Records Access and Coordination Between Primary Care Providers and Public Health Nurse Home Visitors in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To measure nurse home visiting teams' access to electronic health records (EHR) and determine if access to EHR is associated with increased nurse home visitor collaboration with primary care providers in the United States.

Study setting and design

Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is an evidence-based home visiting program for first-time parents experiencing adversities. We conducted an observational study using data from 265 local NFP agencies in the United States. We used multivariate regression models to estimate the association between home visitors' EHR access and relational coordination with primary care providers.

Data sources and analytic sample

We linked data from the 2021 NFP Collaboration with Community Providers Survey to 2021 NFP program implementa

SUBMITTER: Williams VN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12636248 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature