Secondary use of electronic health record data for clinical workflow analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Outpatient clinics lack guidance for tackling modern efficiency and productivity demands. Workflow studies require large amounts of timing data that are prohibitively expensive to collect through observation or tracking devices. Electronic health records (EHRs) contain a vast amount of timing data - timestamps collected during regular use - that can be mapped to workflow steps. This study validates using EHR timestamp data to predict outpatient ophthalmology clinic workflow timings at Oregon Health and Science University and demonstrates their usefulness in 3 different studies.

Materials and methods

Four outpatient ophthalmology clinics were observed to determine their workflows and to time each workflow step. EHR timestamps were mapped to the workflow steps and va

SUBMITTER: Hribar MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6080808 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature