The impact of transitioning from availability of outside records within electronic health records to integration of local and outside records within electronic health records.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

While there has been a substantial increase in health information exchange, levels of outside records use by frontline providers are low. We assessed whether integration between outside data and local data results in increased viewing of outside records, overall and by encounter, provider, and patient type.

Materials and methods

Using data from UCSF Health, we measured change in outside record views after integrating the list of local (UCSF) and outside (other health systems on Epic [Epic Systems, Verona, WI]) encounters on the Chart Review tab. Previously, providers only viewed records from outside encounters on a separate tab. We used an interrupted time series design (with outside record viewing event counts aggregated to the week level) to measure changes in th

SUBMITTER: Adler-Milstein J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7647298 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature