Comparing electronic health record portals to obtain patient-entered family health history in primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is growing interest in developing systems to overcome barriers for acquiring and interpreting family health histories in primary care.

Objective

To examine the capacity of three different electronic portals to collect family history from patients and deposit valid data in an electronic health record (EHR).

Design

Pilot trial.

Participants, intervention

Patients were enrolled from four primary care practices and were asked to collect family health history before a physical exam using either telephone-based interactive voice response (IVR) technology, a secure Internet portal, or a waiting room laptop computer, with portal assigned by practice. Intervention practices were compared to a "usual care" practice, where there was no standard workflow t

SUBMITTER: Murray MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3832728 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature