ArticleJMIR mHealth and uHealth2020
Frequent Mobile Electronic Medical Records Users Respond More Quickly to Emergency Department Consultation Requests: Retrospective Quantitative Study.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Emergency Department Clinician Perspectives on an EMR-Adjacent Microsoft Teams Consultation Workflow.Open access emergency medicine : OAEM · 2026Article
- Mobile Admission Process and Administrative Turnaround Time for Hospitalization of Outpatients: A Retrospective Study.Applied clinical informatics · 2025Article
- Using event logs to observe interactions with electronic health records: an updated scoping review shows increasing use of vendor-derived measures.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
- Effective Use of Mobile Electronic Medical Records by Medical Interns in Real Clinical Settings: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundSpecialty consultation is a critical aspect of emergency department (ED) practice, and a delay in providing consultation might have a significant clinical effect and worsen ED overcrowding. Although mobile electronic medical records (EMR) are being increasingly used and are known to improve the workflow of health care providers, limited studies have evaluated their effectiveness in real-life clinical scenarios.
objectiveFor this study, we aimed to determine the association between response duration to an ED specialty consultation request and the frequency of mobile EMR use.
methodsThis retrospective study was conducted in an academic ED in Seoul, South Korea. We analyzed EMR and mobile EMR data from May 2018 to December 2018. Timestamps of ED consultation requests were retrieved from a PC-based EMR, and the response interval was calculated. Doctors' log frequencies were obtained from the mobile EMR, and we merged data using doctors' deidentification numbers. Pearson's product-moment correlation was performed to identify this association. The primary outcome was the relationship between the frequency of mobile EMR usage and the time interval from ED request to consultation completion by specialty doctors. The secondary outcome was the relationship between the frequency of specialty doctors' mobile EMR usage and the response time to consultation requests.
resultsA total of 25,454 consultations requests were made for 15,555 patients, and 252 specialty doctors provided ED specialty consultations. Of the 742 doctors who used the mobile EMR, 208 doctors used it for the specialty consultation process. After excluding the cases lacking essential information, 21,885 consultations with 208 doctors were included for analysis. According to the mobile EMR usage pattern, the average usage frequency of all users was 13.3 logs/day, and the average duration of the completion of the specialty consultation was 51.7 minutes. There was a significant inverse relationship between the frequency of mobile EMR usage and time interval from ED request to consultation completion by specialty doctors (coefficient=-0.19; 95% CI -0.32 to -0.06; P=.005). Secondary analysis with the response time was done. There was also a significant inverse relationship between the frequency of specialty doctors' mobile EMR usage and the response time to consultation requests (coefficient=-0.18; 95% CI -0.30 to -0.04; P=.009).
conclusionsOur findings suggest that frequent mobile EMR usage is associated with quicker response time to ED consultation requests.
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