Variability in Doctors' Usage Paths of Mobile Electronic Health Records Across Specialties: Comprehensive Analysis of Log Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the emergence of mobile devices, mobile electronic health record (mEHR) systems have been utilized by health care professionals (HCPs), including doctors, nurses, and other practitioners, to improve efficiency at the point of care. Although several studies on mEHR systems were conducted, including those analyzing their effects and HCPs' usage frequency, only a few considered the specific workflows of doctors based on their specialties in which the work process differs greatly.

Objective

This study aimed to investigate the differences in mEHR usage paths across clinical specialties.

Methods

We collected the log data of 974 doctors who worked from August 2016 to August 2017 and used the mEHR system at the Samsung Medical Center, one of the biggest hospit

SUBMITTER: Soh JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6354233 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature