Secure Provider-to-Provider Communication With Electronic Health Record Messaging: An Educational Outreach Study.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:With increasing electronic health record (EHR) use, providers are talking less with one another. Now, many rely on EHRs, informal emails, or texts, introducing fragmentation and new data security challenges with new communication strategies. We aimed to examine the impact of a physician champion educational outreach intervention to promote electronic provider-to-provider communication in a large academic multispecialty group. METHODS:Physician champions provided educational outreach to 16 academic departments, using 10-minute case-based presentations. Online surveys assessed communication preferences and practices. Electronic health record queries counted EHR messaging use before and after intervention. Descriptive statistics compared responses by specialty (z-test). Paired re

SUBMITTER: Walsh KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6014862 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep/Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature