Enhancing the use of EHR systems for pragmatic embedded research: lessons from the NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We identified challenges and solutions to using electronic health record (EHR) systems for the design and conduct of pragmatic research.

Materials and methods

Since 2012, the Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory has served as the resource coordinating center for 21 pragmatic clinical trial demonstration projects. The EHR Core working group invited these demonstration projects to complete a written semistructured survey and used an inductive approach to review responses and identify EHR-related challenges and suggested EHR enhancements.

Results

We received survey responses from 20 projects and identified 21 challenges that fell into 6 broad themes: (1) inadequate collection of patient-reported outcome data, (2) lack of structured data collection, (3) da

SUBMITTER: Richesson RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8633608 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature