Published in:
01-03-2021 | Concise Research Report
Resident Inbox Task Completion Is Improved with a Single Electronic Health Record (EHR) System
Authors:
Anand D. Jagannath, MD, MS, Christopher Nabors, MD, PhD, William Southern, MD, MS, Sheira Schlair, MD, MS, Rosemarie Conigliaro, MD
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 3/2021
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Excerpt
Internal medicine (IM) residents find it challenging to complete outpatient tasks during inpatient rotations. Efforts to ameliorate this problem through innovations in scheduling models and the introduction of increasingly sophisticated electronic health records (EHRs) have met with limited success.
1‐3 A primary barrier to completing outpatient tasks while on inpatient rotations rests in checking the EHR’s outpatient-inbox. Tasks generated by a provider-panel collect there and some may require significant effort to address. This barrier is increased when a separate EHR for the outpatient setting needs to be opened to access and complete these tasks. We hypothesized that such difficulties might be mitigated by implementation of a single EHR that integrates inpatient/outpatient functionality. A transition from separate outpatient and inpatient EHRs to a single platform at our facility allowed us to test this hypothesis. …
