Can we understand population healthcare needs using electronic medical records?

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The identification of population-level healthcare needs using hospital electronic medical records (EMRs) is a promising approach for the evaluation and development of tailored healthcare services. Population segmentation based on healthcare needs may be possible using information on health and social service needs from EMRs. However, it is currently unknown if EMRs from restructured hospitals in Singapore provide information of sufficient quality for this purpose. We compared the inter-rater reliability between a population segment that was assigned prospectively and one that was assigned retrospectively based on EMR review.

Methods

200 non-critical patients aged ≥ 55 years were prospectively evaluated by clinicians for their healthcare needs in the emergency de

SUBMITTER: Chong JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7911077 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature