Use of Electronic Health Record Access and Audit Logs to Identify Physician Actions Following Noninterruptive Alert Opening: Descriptive Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electronic health record (EHR) access and audit logs record behaviors of providers as they navigate the EHR. These data can be used to better understand provider responses to EHR-based clinical decision support (CDS), shedding light on whether and why CDS is effective.

Objective

This study aimed to determine the feasibility of using EHR access and audit logs to track primary care physicians' (PCPs') opening of and response to noninterruptive alerts delivered to EHR InBaskets.

Methods

We conducted a descriptive study to assess the use of EHR log data to track provider behavior. We analyzed data recorded following opening of 799 noninterruptive alerts sent to 75 PCPs' InBaskets through a prior randomized controlled trial. Three types of alerts highlighted new

SUBMITTER: Amroze A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6383113 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature