Identifying collaborative care teams through electronic medical record utilization patterns.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The goal of this investigation was to determine whether automated approaches can learn patient-oriented care teams via utilization of an electronic medical record (EMR) system.

Materials and methods

To perform this investigation, we designed a data-mining framework that relies on a combination of latent topic modeling and network analysis to infer patterns of collaborative teams. We applied the framework to the EMR utilization records of over 10 000 employees and 17 000 inpatients at a large academic medical center during a 4-month window in 2010. Next, we conducted an extrinsic evaluation of the patterns to determine the plausibility of the inferred care teams via surveys with knowledgeable experts. Finally, we conducted an intrinsic evaluation to contextualize ea

SUBMITTER: Chen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6080725 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature