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The creation of people-driven data collaboratives, with governance structures that enable participants to have a meaningful voice in issues surrounding the use of their own data, is a novel strategy to harness our growing capacity to develop and maintain immense data assets from the real health experiences of individuals.

Information reconciliation is a common yet complex and often time-consuming task performed by healthcare providers. While electronic health record systems can receive "outside information" about a patient in electronic documents, rarely does the computer automate reconciling information about a patient across all documents.

The clinical diagnosis of genetic disorders is undergoing transformation, driven by whole exome sequencing and whole genome sequencing (WES/WGS). However, such nucleotide-level resolution technologies create an interpretive challenge. Prior literature suggests that clinicians may employ characteristic cognitive processes during WES/WGS investigations to identify disruptions in genes causal for the observed disease. Based on cognitive ergonomics, we designed and evaluated a gene prioritization workflow that supported these cognitive processes.

To systematically synthesize the literature on information visualizations of symptoms included as National Institute of Nursing Research common data elements and designed for use by patients and/or healthcare providers.

To determine the effects of an inpatient portal intervention on patient activation, patient satisfaction, patient engagement with health information, and 30-day hospital readmissions.

To quantify how stress related to use of health information technology (HIT) predicts burnout among physicians.

Large practice networks have access to EHR data that can be used to drive important improvements in population health. However, missing data often limit improvement efforts. Our goal was to determine the proportion of patients in a cohort of small primary care practices who lacked cholesterol data to calculate ASCVD risk scores and then gauge the extent that imputation can accurately identify individuals already at high risk. 219 practices enrolled [...]

Clinicians using clinical decision support (CDS) to prescribe medications have an obligation to ensure that prescriptions are safe. One option is to verify the safety of prescriptions if there is uncertainty, for example, by using drug references. Supervisory control experiments in aviation and process control have associated errors, with reduced verification arising from overreliance on decision support. However, it is unknown whether this relationship extends to clinical decision-making. Therefore, we [...]

Investigators conducting prospective clinical trials must report patient flow using the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement. Depending on how data are collected, this can be a laborious, time-intensive process. However, because many trials enter data electronically, CONSORT diagrams may be generated in an automated fashion.

Disadvantaged populations, including minorities and the elderly, use patient portals less often than relatively more advantaged populations. Limited access to and experience with technology contribute to these disparities. Free access to devices, the Internet, and technical assistance may eliminate disparities in portal use.