Background: Cognitive load (CL) is increasing in healthcare leading to provider frustration and poor performance. Human factors design principles like cognitive load theory (CLT) may mitigate the negative impacts of CL. This study examined the [...]
Background: In recent years, in large part due to reimbursement incentives, the healthcare industry has shifted focus from volume to quality of care, with patient satisfaction being a crucial part of the evaluation. There is [...]
Background: A somewhat under-discussed topic in EHR implementation is the safety and efficiency consequences of their lengthy build and implementation. After multiple years of stalled clinical innovation while IT staff dedicate their focus to EHR [...]
Background: Nebraska Medicine is dedicated to the continuous, goal-directed improvement of: 1. Central venous catheter (CVC) duration 2. Indwelling urinary catheter (IUC) duration 3. Telemetry duration 4. VTE prophylaxis 5. Non-violent restraint order renewal Clinical [...]
Background: Inpatient physicians often spend 30-60 minutes daily creating a “rounding list,” a process that requires reviewing the electronic health record (EHR) and transcribing data to paper. Previous studies have described automated rounding-lists leveraging EHR [...]
Background: Healthcare research has traditionally relied upon data collected from clinical trials and data generated from patient registries and insurance claims to drive analyses. As electronic health records (EHR) and computerized physician order entry have [...]
Background: Medication alerts are one of the touted safety features with the electronic health record (EHR). With time, users tend to override the alerts, which leads to patient harm. The phenomenon of “alert fatigue” is [...]
Background: Electronic health record (EHR) systems are used by a majority of US hospitals. EHR use has been associated with increased task complexity, clinical data volume and provider documentation demands. Studies of multiple specialties suggest [...]
Background: Accurate, high-quality data is critical for work in quality improvement, research, and clinical operations. With an electronic health record (EHR), vast amounts of observational data are collected on patients every day. This data can [...]
Background: In the inpatient setting, opioids are the most commonly prescribed medication and the 2nd most frequent cause of adverse drug events (ADE). Identifying patients at high risk for ADEs related to narcotics is essential. [...]
Background: Academic medical centers are complex healthcare delivery systems that are quickly adopting electronic health records (EHR) nationwide while still using alpha-numeric paging for physicians-in-training raised with cell phones, texting, messaging, and newer technologies. [...]