We work with them? Healthcare workers interpretation of organizational relations mined from electronic health records.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Models of healthcare organizations (HCOs) are often defined up front by a select few administrative officials and managers. However, given the size and complexity of modern healthcare systems, this practice does not scale easily. The goal of this work is to investigate the extent to which organizational relationships can be automatically learned from utilization patterns of electronic health record (EHR) systems.

Method

We designed an online survey to solicit the perspectives of employees of a large academic medical center. We surveyed employees from two administrative areas: (1) Coding & Charge Entry and (2) Medical Information Services and two clinical areas: (3) Anesthesiology and (4) Psychiatry. To test our hypotheses we selected two administrative units that h

SUBMITTER: Chen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4159755 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature