Clinical Summarization Capabilities of Commercially-available and Internally-developed Electronic Health Records.
OBJECTIVE: Clinical summarization, the process by which relevant patient information is electronically summarized and presented at the point of care, is of increasing importance given the increasing volume of clinical data in electronic health record systems (EHRs). There is a paucity of research on electronic clinical summarization, including the capabilities of currently available EHR systems. METHODS: We compared different aspects of general clinical summary screens used in twelve different EHR [...]
Author(s): Laxmisan, Archana, McCoy, Allison B, Wright, Adam, Sittig, Dean F
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2011-11-RA-0066