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Health systems often employ interruptive alerts through the electronic health record to improve patient care. However, concerns of "alert fatigue" have been raised, highlighting the importance of understanding the time burden and impact of these alerts on providers.

Hospitals across the country are investing millions of dollars to adopt new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant secure text messaging systems. However, in nearly all cases, these implementations are occurring without evaluation of their impact on patient care.

The aim of this study was to design and evaluate a smartphone-based application for improving self-management in patients with asthma and evaluate its effects on their knowledge.

To investigate using patient posts in social media as a resource to profile off-label prescriptions of cancer drugs.

Neurologists perform a significant amount of consultative work. Aggregative electronic health record (EHR) dashboards may help to reduce consultation turnaround time (TAT) which may reflect time spent interfacing with the EHR.

Pleiotropy, where 1 genetic locus affects multiple phenotypes, can offer significant insights in understanding the complex genotype-phenotype relationship. Although individual genotype-phenotype associations have been thoroughly explored, seemingly unrelated phenotypes can be connected genetically through common pleiotropic loci or genes. However, current analyses of pleiotropy have been challenged by both methodologic limitations and a lack of available suitable data sources.

The introduction of the electronic health record (EHR) has had a significant impact on provider-patient interactions, particularly revolving around patient-centeredness. More research is needed to understand the provider perspective of this interaction.

Mobile applications allow health care providers to capture point-of-care medical photographs and transfer them to the electronic health record (EHR). It is unclear how providers use these photographs or how they affect clinical care.