Integrated Health Record Viewers and Reduction in Duplicate Medical Imaging: Retrospective Observational Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health information exchange and multiplatform health record viewers support more informed medical decisions, improve quality of care, and reduce the risk of adverse outcomes due to fragmentation and discontinuity in care during transition of care. An example of a multiplatform health record viewer is the VA/DoD Joint Longitudinal Viewer (JLV), which supports the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) health care providers with read-only access to patient medical records integrated from multiple sources. JLV is intended to support more informed medical decisions such as reducing duplicate medical imaging when previous image study results may meet current clinical needs.

Objective

We estimated the impact of provider usage of JLV on dupli

SUBMITTER: Yuan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9166659 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature