HTM 552

Meaningful use of EHRs must include its end users and meet the needs of clinicians, else the promised land of its perfect positive impacts is unlikely ever to be reached.

Thorpe, D., Strobel, J., & Bidargaddi, N. (2023). Examining clinician choice to follow-up (or not) on automated notifications of medication non-adherence by clinical decision support systems. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 23(1), 1-22.

Cautionary research showing that more is not always better (i.e., information overload), refocusing efforts around successful EHR implementation through a (human) medical practitioner lens and on managing real patients.

Nijor, S., Rallis, G., Lad, N., & Gokcen, E. (2022). Patient safety issues from information overload in electronic medical records. Journal of Patient Safety, 18(6), e999-e1003.

A retrospective analysis framing the need for ongoing critical assessments of what is working for whom and when. Only by confronting both what has worked and what has not can we work toward meaningful improvement of patient care.

Rathert, C., Porter, T. H., Mittler, J. N., & Fleig-Palmer, M. (2019). Seven years after Meaningful Use: Physicians’ and nurses’ experiences with electronic health records. Health Care Management Review, 44(1), 30-40.