Health Information Exchange in the ED: What Do ED Clinicians Think?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our regional health information exchange (HIE), known as Carolina eHealth Alliance (CeHA)-HIE, serves all major hospital systems in our region and is accessible to emergency department (ED) clinicians in those systems. We wanted to understand reasons for low CeHA-HIE utilization and explore options for improving it.

Methods

We implemented a 24-item user survey among ED clinician users of CeHA-HIE to investigate their perceptions of system usability and functionality, the quality of the information available through CeHA-HIE, the value of clinician time spent using CeHA-HIE, the ease of use of CeHA-HIE, and approaches for improving CeHA-HIE.

Results

Of the 231 ED clinicians surveyed, 51 responded, and among those, 48 reported having used CeHA-HIE and complet

SUBMITTER: Melvin CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4933330 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature