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This Viewpoint posits suggestions to reform electronic health records (EHRs), including use of unique personal safety identifiers, reduction of administrative and regulatory content from clinical time, inclusion of patient-entered information into the EHR, and reinvention of the clinical note.
This cohort study describes the adaptation of a widely used penicillin allergy clinical decision tool for evaluation of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole allergy.
This essay discusses the value of the detail-filled notes physicians were trained to write after each patient encounter, and how those notes are now viewed mostly as instruments for billing instead of as vital information for ongoing patient care.
This qualitative study assesses surgeons’ perspectives regarding a change in the default number of doses for opioid prescriptions written through an electronic health record system to adolescents and young adults undergoing tonsillectomy.
This qualitative study examines the perspectives of attending physicians and resident physicians on the use of electronic health records.
This cohort study examines changes in physician electronic health record (EHR) documentation time before and after changes in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid evaluation and management requirements.
This case-control study assesses disruptive life events of individuals with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder using public consumer credit records in conjunction with electronic health record data.
This cross-sectional study evaluates the accuracy of data from administrative claims and electronic health records against retrospective medical record review.
This cross-sectional study sought to quantify the frequency of change in race category in the electronic medical record (EMR) of a pediatric population.
This Viewpoint discusses the impersonalization of delivering bad news to patients through a patient portal rather than in person.
This qualitative study examines perspectives of emergency nurses on behavioral flags in electronic health records in relation to workplace safety and patient care.
This qualitative study analyzes closed legal claims data to determine whether problems with electronic health records are associated with diagnostic errors, in which part of the diagnostic process errors occur, and the specific types of errors that occur.
This cross-sectional study examines the development of a machine learning model using natural language processing to classify the intent of firearm-related injury.
This survey study assesses dermatology patient experiences with viewing online medical records and seeks to identify areas for improvement.
This Viewpoint discusses the opportunities and risks of using 3 main areas of artificial intelligence in surgery: computer vision, digital transformation at the point of care, and electronic health records data.
This survey study examines respondents’ attitudes and perspectives about receiving immediately released medical test results through an online patient portal.
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