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ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2011

Comparison of clinical knowledge management capabilities of commercially-available and leading internally-developed electronic health records.

Dean F Sittig, Adam Wright, Seth Meltzer, Linas Simonaitis, R Scott Evans, W Paul Nichol, Joan S Ash, Blackford Middleton

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Article in BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Dean F SittigUTHealth-Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality & Safety, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA. dean.f.sittig@uth.tmc.edu
Adam Wright
Seth Meltzer
Linas Simonaitis
R Scott Evans
W Paul Nichol
Joan S Ash
Blackford Middleton

Funding

Unintended Consequences of Physician Order EntryR01LM006942 · NLM · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI ASH, JOAN S. · 2000 to 2010
$4.0M
NLM NIH HHS R01-LM006942PHS HHS HHHSA29020080010
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWe have carried out an extensive qualitative research program focused on the barriers and facilitators to successful adoption and use of various features of advanced, state-of-the-art electronic health records (EHRs) within large, academic, teaching facilities with long-standing EHR research and development programs. We have recently begun investigating smaller, community hospitals and out-patient clinics that rely on commercially-available EHRs. We sought to assess whether the current generation of commercially-available EHRs are capable of providing the clinical knowledge management features, functions, tools, and techniques required to deliver and maintain the clinical decision support (CDS) interventions required to support the recently defined "meaningful use" criteria.

methodsWe developed and fielded a 17-question survey to representatives from nine commercially available EHR vendors and four leading internally developed EHRs. The first part of the survey asked basic questions about the vendor's EHR. The second part asked specifically about the CDS-related system tools and capabilities that each vendor provides. The final section asked about clinical content.

resultsAll of the vendors and institutions have multiple modules capable of providing clinical decision support interventions to clinicians. The majority of the systems were capable of performing almost all of the key knowledge management functions we identified.

conclusionIf these well-designed commercially-available systems are coupled with the other key socio-technical concepts required for safe and effective EHR implementation and use, and organizations have access to implementable clinical knowledge, we expect that the transformation of the healthcare enterprise that so many have predicted, is achievable using commercially-available, state-of-the-art EHRs.

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Decision Support Systems, ClinicalData CollectionElectronic Health RecordsHumansKnowledge ManagementOutpatients

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PMID21329520
PMCPMC3063202

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