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U.S. poison control centers pose a special case for patient identity matching because they collect only minimal patient identifying information.

Laboratory-based utilization management programs typically rely primarily on data derived from the laboratory information system to analyze testing volumes for trends and utilization concerns. We wished to examine the ability of an electronic health record (EHR) laboratory orders database to improve a laboratory utilization program.

With health care policy directives advancing value-based care, risk assessments and management have permeated health care discourse. The conventional problem-based infrastructure defines what data are employed to build this discourse and how it unfolds. Such a health care model tends to bias data for risk assessment and risk management toward problems and does not capture data about health assets or strengths. The purpose of this article is to explore and [...]

Electronic medication lists may be useful in clinical decision support and research, but their accuracy is not well described. Our aim was to assess the completeness of the medication list compared to the clinical narrative in the electronic health record.

Malfunctions in Clinical Decision Support (CDS) systems occur due to a multitude of reasons, and often go unnoticed, leading to potentially poor outcomes. Our goal was to identify malfunctions within CDS systems.

To automatically recognize self-acknowledged limitations in clinical research publications to support efforts in improving research transparency.

Mobile applications for improving diagnostic decision making often lack clinical evaluation. We evaluated if a mobile application improves generalist physicians' appropriate laboratory test ordering and diagnosis decisions and assessed if physicians perceive it as useful for learning.

Our objectives were to measure experts' opinions and develop consensus via the Delphi process on the barriers, applications, and concerns associated with telemental health (TMH) for youth.