Comparison of Medication Alerts from Two Commercial Applications in the USA.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medication organizations across the USA have adopted electronic health records, and one of the most anticipated benefits of these was improved medication safety, but alert fatigue has been a major issue.

Objective

We compared the appropriateness of medication-related clinical decision support alerts triggered by two commercial applications: EPIC and Seegnal's platform.

Methods

This was a retrospective comparison of two commercial applications. We provided Seegnal with deidentified inpatient, outpatient, and inpatient genetic electronic medical record (EMR)-extracted datasets for 657, 2731, and 413 patients, respectively. Seegnal then provided the alerts that would have triggered, which we compared with those triggered by EPIC in clinical care. A random sa

SUBMITTER: Shah SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8184526 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature