With wider use of electronic health records (EHRs), physicians increasingly receive notifications via EHR-based inboxes. Types of notifications include test...
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The Burden of Inbox Notifications in Commercial Electronic Health Records
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The number of health information exchange efforts is declining, leaving the viability of broad clinical data exchange uncertain
To drive health information exchange (HIE), community and state efforts were federally funded to broadly engage providers in exchanging data in ways that improve...
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Characterizing the source of text in electronic health record progress notes
Electronic health records (EHRs) allow physicians writing these notes to supplement traditional manual data entry with copied or imported text. However, copying or...
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Safe practices for copy and paste in the EHR. Systematic review, recommendations, and novel model for health IT collaboration
The following systematic review explores copy and paste events in clinical care through identifying safety risks, describing existing evidence, and developing...
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The Evolving Medical Record
Changes in record format, designed to manage increasing volumes of data, and physicians' responses to those changes parallel some of the contemporary threats to...
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Performance of a natural language processing (NLP) tool to extract pulmonary function test (PFT) reports from structured and semistructured Veteran Affairs (VA) data
Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are objective estimates of lung function, but are not reliably stored within the Veteran Health Affairs data systems as structured...
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Natural language processing to ascertain two key variables from operative reports in ophthalmology
The following study performed natural language processing (NLP) of 743,838 operative notes recorded for 315,246 surgeries to ascertain two variables needed to study...
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Using machine learning and natural language processing algorithms to automate the evaluation of clinical decision support in electronic medical record systems
The authors of the following study use machine learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms to accurately evaluate a clinical decision support rule...
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The concept of product usability
The following article discusses the unexpected problems, such as product usability, that have risen alongside the enormous technological revolution over recent...
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Impact of scribes on physician satisfaction, patient satisfaction, and charting efficiency: A randomized controlled trial
The following randomized controlled trial, published in Annals of Family Medicine, evaluates the effect of medical scribes on physician satisfaction, patient...
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