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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.

 Automation of test follow-up offers potential reductions in workload for clinicians. The primary objective of the study was to evaluate the performance of MicrobEx, a regular expression-based algorithm in classifying urine culture reports in primary care.

 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).

 This study aims to explore how health informaticists collaborate with multiple stakeholder groups, each possessing varying levels of comfort and competence with health technology and data. stakeholder engagement is highlighted as a crucial skill for health informaticists, necessitated by the differing competency levels among stakeholders.

 Patients with cirrhosis are at high risk for developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), warranting receipt of semiannual surveillance imaging with the potential to identify abnormal liver lesions. Since the implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act's Information Blocking provision, test results are immediately released to patients through the patient portal. There is an increasing trend of patients reviewing their results before their providers.

 This study seeks to understand pediatric rheumatology patients' and caregivers' utilization and perceptions of immediate access to their electronic health information (EHI) via patient portals.

 Drug-drug interaction (DDI) alerts in electronic systems are frequently implemented to minimize the occurrence of preventable DDIs. While prescribers recognize the potential benefits of DDI alerts, a large proportion are overridden by users.

The use of electronic health records (EHRs) in research demands robust and interoperable systems. By linking biorepositories to EHR algorithms, researchers can efficiently identify cases and controls for large observational studies (e.g., genome-wide association studies). This is critical for ensuring efficient and cost-effective research. However, the lack of standardized metadata and algorithms across different EHRs complicates their sharing and application. Our study presents an example of a successful implementation and [...]