SMJ articles in the category "physician adoption"

Original Article

When Should ED Physicians Use an HIE? Predicting Presence of Patient Data in an HIE

Objectives: Health information exchanges (HIEs) make possible the construction of databases to characterize patients as multisystem users (MSUs), those visiting emergency departments (EDs) of more than one hospital system within a region during a 1-year period. HIE data can inform an algorithm highlighting patients for whom information is more likely…

Posted in: electronic medical record 6 health information exchange 4 information sharing 2 information technology 2 physician adoption 2

Original Article

A Comprehensive View of Frequent Emergency Department Users Based on Data from a Regional HIE

Objectives: A small but significant number of patients make frequent emergency department (ED) visits to multiple EDs within a region. We have a unique health information exchange (HIE) that includes every ED encounter in all hospital systems in our region. Using our HIE we were able to characterize all frequent…

Posted in: electronic medical record 6 health information exchange 4 information sharing 2 information technology 2 physician adoption 2
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