Embedding "Smart" Disease Coding Within Routine Electronic Medical Record Workflow: Prospective Single-Arm Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electronic medical record (EMR) chronic disease measurement can help direct primary care prevention and treatment strategies and plan health services resource management. Incomplete data and poor consistency of coded disease values within EMR problem lists are widespread issues that limit primary and secondary uses of these data. These issues were shared by the McMaster University Sentinel and Information Collaboration (MUSIC), a primary care practice-based research network (PBRN) located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Objective

We sought to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of new EMR interface tools aimed at improving the quantity and the consistency of disease codes recorded within the disease registry across the MUSIC PBRN.

Methods

We used a single-

SUBMITTER: Mangin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7418012 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature