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Thorough and ongoing testing of electronic health records (EHRs) is key to ensuring their safety and effectiveness. Many health care organizations limit testing to test environments separate from, and often different than, the production environment used by clinicians. Because EHRs are complex hardware and software systems that often interact with other hardware and software systems, no test environment can exactly mimic how the production environment will behave. An effective testing [...]

We aimed to investigate to what extent clustering of related drug interaction alerts (drug-drug and drug-disease interaction alerts) would decrease the alert rate in clinical decision support systems (CDSSs).

To reduce wasteful ordering of rare 1,25-OH vitamin D lab tests through use of a noninterruptive decision support tool.

To provide a report on year 1 results of a national study investigating nursing home information technology (IT) adoption, called IT sophistication.

Event notifications are real-time, electronic, automatic alerts to providers of their patients' health care encounters at other facilities. Our objective was to examine the effects of organizational capability and related social/organizational issues upon users' perceptions of the impact of event notifications on quality, efficiency, and satisfaction.

There have been several concerns about the quality of documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) when compared to paper charts. This study compares the accuracy of physical examination findings documentation between the two in initial progress notes.

Assess parent use and perceptions of an inpatient portal application on a tablet computer that provides information about a child's hospital stay.

Electronic health record (EHR) data are used to exchange information among health care providers. For this purpose, the quality of the data is essential. We developed a data quality feedback tool that evaluates differences in EHR data quality among practices and software packages as part of a larger intervention.