It’s not every day that the director of the National Institutes of Health blogs about your research. But that’s the day that David Chan, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, recently had when NIH Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, highlighted his work.
Chan, a core faculty member at the Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, is exploring the impact of electronic health record reminders on the quality of primary care. He received an NIH Early Independence Award last year for his work in this area.
Collins writes:
Is 5 too few and 40 too many? That’s one of many questions that... Chan is asking about the clinical reminders embedded into those electronic health record (EHR) systems increasingly used at your doctor’s office or local hospital. Electronic reminders, which are similar to the popups that appear when installing software on your computer, flag items for healthcare professionals to consider when they are seeing patients. Depending on the type of reminder used in the EHR—and there are many types—these timely messages may range from a simple prompt to write a prescription to complex recommendations for follow-up testing and specialist referrals.
More details on Chan's work can be found in the full post.
Beth Duff-Brown is communications manager for the Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary and Outcomes Research.
Previously: A new tool for tracking harm in hospitalized children, Automated safety checklists prevent hospital-acquired infections, Stanford team finds and Can sharing patient records among hospitals eliminate duplicate tests and cut costs?
