Electronic Health Record Usability Issues and Potential Contribution to Patient Harm

Electronic health record (EHR) usability, which is the extent that EHRs support clinicians in achieving their goals in a satisfying, effective, and efficient manner, is a point of frustration for clinicians and can have patient safety consequences. However, specific usability issues and EHR clinical...

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Published inJAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 319; no. 12; pp. 1276 - 1278
Main Authors Howe, Jessica L, Adams, Katharine T, Hettinger, A. Zachary, Ratwani, Raj M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Medical Association 27.03.2018
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Databases as Topic
Electronic health records
Electronic Health Records - standards
Electronic medical records
Health Information Interoperability
Humans
Letter
Letters
Medical Errors - statistics & numerical data
Mid-Atlantic Region
Patient Harm
Patient safety
Research Letter
Risk Management
Usability
User-Computer Interface
Workflow
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Summary:Electronic health record (EHR) usability, which is the extent that EHRs support clinicians in achieving their goals in a satisfying, effective, and efficient manner, is a point of frustration for clinicians and can have patient safety consequences. However, specific usability issues and EHR clinical processes that contribute to possible patient harm across different health care facilities have not been identified. We analyzed reports of possible patient harm that explicitly mentioned a major EHR vendor or product.
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ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2018.1171