HTM310 v1

Evans, R.S.(2016).International Youth Survey. Measuring youth well-being. (IYS-2016-s006). https://doi.org/10.15265/IYS-2016-s006

An excellent introduction to the study of health care informatics, including a relatively brief and simple summary of how the use of electronic health record technologies have been (and are) incentivized.

Adler-Milstein, J., & Jha, A. K. (2017). HITECH Act drove large gains in hospital electronic health record adoption. Health Affairs, 36(8), 1416-1422. https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1651

Adds some detail on differences in EHR applicability, factors impacting EHR adoption, and complexities confounding simple assessments of whether our best-laid plans are working.

O'Shea, A. M., Gibson, M., Merchant, J., Rewerts, K., Miell, K., Kaboli, P. J., & Shimada, S. L. (2024). Understanding rural‐urban differences in veterans’ internet access, use and patient preferences for telemedicine. The Journal of Rural Health, 40(3), 438-445. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jrh.12805

Great overview of how health care organizations are currently considering differences in providing telehealth and other digital health care resources to urban versus rural communities.

Si, Y., Du, J., Li, Z., Jiang, X., Miller, T., Wang, F., & Roberts, K. (2021). Deep representation learning of patient data from Electronic Health Records (EHR): A systematic review. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 115, 103671. https://www.jabfm.org/content/jabfp/30/4/428.full.pdf

Introduces modern efforts to understand patients holistically, joining available data into varyingly generalizable patterns that promise to improve the personalization of medical care

Molloy-Paolillo, B., Mohr, D., Levy, D. R., Cutrona, S. L., Anderson, E., Rucci, J., & Rinne, S. T. (2023). Assessing electronic health record (EHR) use during a major EHR transition: An innovative mixed methods approach. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 38(Suppl 4), 999-1006. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11606-023-08318-w.pdf

Understanding how physicians are responding to changes in electronic health records (EHR) implementations is key to driving sustainable digital solutions in complex healthcare environments. This article provides a good general introduction to this area of study.

Cogan, A. M., Haltom, T. M., Shimada, S. L., Davila, J. A., McGinn, B. P., & Fix, G. M. (2024). Understanding patients' experiences during transitions from one electronic health record to another: A scoping review. PEC Innovation, 100258. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772628224000062

This article frames a broadening literature on how switching to an EHR may change the way patients interact with their doctors and health care data, potentially impacting care utilization.