Characterizing electronic health record usage patterns of inpatient medicine residents using event log data

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 14; no. 2; p. e0205379
• Main Authors: Wang, Jason K, Ouyang, David, Hom, Jason, Chi, Jeffrey, Chen, Jonathan H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 06.02.2019; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Academic Medical Centers; Analysis; Biology and Life Sciences; Burnout; Computer and Information Sciences; Education; Education policy; Electronic Health Records; Electronic medical records; Electronic records; Family medical history; Health; Humans; Informatics; Inpatients; Internal Medicine; Internship and Residency; Medical personnel; Medical records; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Night; People and Places; Photoperiod; Physician-patient relations; Physicians; Practice Patterns, Physicians; Primary care; R&D; Research & development; Research and Analysis Methods; Schedules; Social Sciences; Streamlining; Tertiary Care Centers; Time Factors; Use statistics; Workflow; Workflow software; United States > US; California

Amid growing rates of burnout, physicians report increasing electronic health record (EHR) usage alongside decreasing clinical facetime with patients. There exists a pressing need to improve physician-computer-patient interactions by streamlining EHR workflow. To identify interventions to improve EH...