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The study sought to determine availability and use of structured override reasons for drug-drug interaction (DDI) alerts in electronic health records.

With advances in technology, patients increasingly expect to access their health information on their phones and computers seamlessly, whenever needed, to meet their clinical needs. The 1996 passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), modifications made by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), and the recent 21st Century Cures Act (Cures) promise to make patients' health information available to them without special [...]

Author-centric analyses of fast-growing biomedical reference databases are challenging due to author ambiguity. This problem has been mainly addressed through author disambiguation using supervised machine-learning algorithms. Such algorithms, however, require adequately designed gold standards that reflect the reference database properly. In this study we used MEDLINE to build the first unbiased gold standard in a reference database and improve over the existing state of the art in author disambiguation.

Despite increased use of electronic health records (EHRs), the clinical impact of system downtime is unknown.

The study sought to examine whether provider encouragement is associated with improvements in engaging patients with their healthcare processes using online portals.

The potential benefit of mobile health (M-Health) in developing countries for improving the efficiency of health care service delivery, health care quality, and patient safety, as well as reducing cost, has been increasingly recognized and emphasized in the last few years.

Clinical decision support (CDS) systems delivered through the electronic health record are an important element of quality and safety initiatives within a health care system. However, managing a large CDS knowledge base can be an overwhelming task for informatics teams. Additionally, it can be difficult for these informatics teams to communicate their goals with external operational stakeholders and define concrete steps for improvement. We aimed to develop a maturity model [...]

To assess changes in computerized provider order entry error rates among providers who with less than 24-hour notice were switched from four-chart access to one-chart-only access.

Concerns about the number of automated medication alerts issued within the electronic health record (EHR), and the subsequent potential for alarm fatigue, led us to examine strategies and methods to optimize the configuration of our drug alerts.