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Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) can reduce the health and social costs associated with unhealthy alcohol use (UAU). Electronic health records (EHRs) can support evidence-based screening practices for UAU and provide performance data needed for quality improvement. The objective of this study was to describe barriers faced by primary care clinics when using EHR systems to support UAU screening and delivery of recommended interventions.

To determine how much of the current biomedical literature would be flagged or require modification in relation to the presence of terms from leaked lists prepared by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Security Administration (NSA) in early 2025.

The digitalization of health records stands to improve decision-making at clinical, administrative, and policy level. Efforts follow various paths and are closely intertwined with health system and organizational configurations. Problems persist in both uptake and use. This study explores the digitalization trajectories of academic health centers (AHCs) to understand tensions between organizational and government strategies and their impact on digital development.

To conduct a scoping review (ScR) of existing approaches for synthetic Electronic Health Records (EHR) data generation, to benchmark major methods, and to provide an open-source software and offer recommendations for practitioners.

To examine the effects of message framing and visualization framing on the comprehension of personal health records and subsequent self-care behavioral intention among young and middle-older aged adults.

Unlocking clinical information embedded in clinical notes has been hindered to a significant degree by domain-specific and context-sensitive language. Identification of note sections and structural document elements has been shown to improve information extraction and dependent downstream clinical natural language processing (NLP) tasks and applications. This study investigates the viability of a dynamic example selection prompting method to section classification using lightweight, open-source large language models (LLMs) as a practical [...]

As large language models (LLMs) are integrated into electronic health record (EHR) workflows, validated instruments are essential to evaluate their performance before implementation and as models and documentation practices evolve. Existing instruments for provider documentation quality are often unsuitable for the complexities of LLM-generated text and lack validation on real-world data. The Provider Documentation Summarization Quality Instrument (PDSQI-9) was developed to evaluate LLM-generated clinical summaries. This study aimed to validate [...]

Clinical staff often help clinicians review and respond to messages from patients. This study aimed to characterize primary care staff members' experiences with inbox work.

Diagnosis codes documented in electronic health records (EHR) are often relied upon to clinically phenotype patients for biomedical research. However, these diagnoses can be incomplete and inaccurate, leading to false negatives when searching for patients with phenotypes of interest. This study aims to determine whether PheMAP, a comprehensive knowledgebase integrating multiple clinical terminologies beyond diagnosis to capture phenotypes, can effectively identify patients lacking relevant EHR diagnosis codes.