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Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have significantly impacted healthcare improving access to patient information and enhancing communication among the health care team. However, lack of usability and increased documentation burden has greatly contributed to clinician burnout. Improvements in EHR design that include physician input is critical to develop specific changes that make EHRs less cumbersome; however, it can be challenging to gather input from physicians with full clinical workloads.

Many children with cancer are treated as part of interventional clinical trials. Ensuring that the correct chemotherapy treatment plan is used is paramount.

 Effective data management is critical in medical informatics research, ensuring the success and integrity of clinical studies. However, students often lack comprehensive training in this area, highlighting the need for tailored educational programs.

 This study aimed to demonstrate real-world use of the Making Electronic Data More Available for Research and Public Health (MedMorph) Reference Architecture (RA) for automated exchange of hepatitis C-related data for public health surveillance and research using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).

To assess the efficacy of a biomedical informatics boot camp with regards to improving the skill sets of its participants.

Despite the proven usefulness of appropriate clinical decision support (CDS) alerts, many CDS systems fire excessive, clinically irrelevant alerts that are often ignored by clinicians. We have developed a method to suppress false-positive alerts based on prior drug tolerance but encountered substantial barriers to integrate the method into widely adopted commercial electronic health record (EHR) systems.

At a large quaternary health system, tissue specimens were frequently sent to the microbiology laboratory with an incorrect wound culture order meant for swab specimens due to poor electronic health record menu design. Wound cultures were also requested in chronic wound cases with a low index of suspicion for acute infection.

Pediatric cancer patients with fever and neutropenia are at risk for bacterial sepsis, traditionally requiring extended hospital stays on antibiotics until neutrophil counts recover. According to a new validated scoring system, a subset of these patients is at lower risk and eligible for early discharge and reduced IV antibiotic exposure.

Effective postoperative care is crucial for the success of total joint arthroplasty (TJA) and prevention of unnecessary emergency department (ED) visits. We explore the feasibility and acceptability of utilizing an Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) to enhance postoperative monitoring in primary TJA patients.

Objective Experiences sharing complex workflow-integrated clinical decision support (CDS) across health systems are sparse and not well reported. This case study presents the sharing of a hybrid electronic health record (EHR)-native and SMART-compatible CDS tool for automating provision of smoking cessation treatment for caregivers during pediatric visits. Materials & Methods We conducted a comprehensive needs assessment using socio-technical frameworks to identify workflow gaps and technical requirements. A multidisciplinary team of [...]