Drs. Tevis and Yi, both surgeon informaticists, make the case for more surgeons to get involved in the innovation, design and use of electronic health records to make surgery better. They’ve got a point.
Category: journal publications
stuff i/we have published
Utility of Gen-AI Draft Replies to Patient Messages (JAMA Network Open)
We are published! We have enjoyed developing our prompts for ART: automated response technology from Epic, augmented by our ongoing weekly prompt engineering to improve draft replies to patient online messages. Our nurses were most satisfied with these draft replies.
New Research: Information transparency with immediate release: Oncology clinician and patient perceptions
Highlights: Clinicians and patients have varying insights on the role of immediately released reports (pathology/radiology) in oncology. We must support the expansion of patient-centered strategies and tools for patient understanding and empowerment. These include patient portal tools (glossaries, summaries, and additional information) embedded into released results.
Designing for Health podcast (Salmi, Steitz, Lin) on Patients Receiving Test Results Immediately
Caution: humor and high quality research facts ahead! What percent of patients worry? What percent of patients prefer immediate release even if result is abnormal? There are research findings?
Podcast: Designing for Health: Do patients want to see their test results immediately? (hint: 96% say yes)
Come join us! Dr. Bryan Steiz, first author, Liz Salmi, Chief Patient Informaticist, and I discuss our recent publication on the subject of patients accessing their test results online BEFORE their doctor can inform them. This poses a host of gnarly questions that had no data, no answers ... UNTIL NOW.
Dr. Rob Turer and Open Results at AMIA. What do patients prefer?
Rob Turer presenting the major Open Results paper at #AMIA #CIC2023. 95% of patients who received results PREFER to see it immediately even if not normal! precounseling MIGHT help! Thanks Dr. Turer for laying a data foundation for patient information transparency.
Speech Recognition In the Exam Room with patients: could this work for you?
Speech recognition has been used in medical practice for years. Some physicians/APP's use this in the exam room. What do patients think of this? We studied this, and published on this topic, come along for the ride ...
Perspectives of Patients About Immediate Access to Test Results Through an Online Patient Portal
What do 8000 patients think about the immediate release of test results since the 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule on information blocking? 96% preferred receiving immediately released results online even if their health care practitioner had not yet reviewed the result. (and more!)
Dig Deeper: A Case Report of Finding (and Fixing) the Root Cause of Add-On Laboratory Failures
Excess venipunctures can be caused by Electronic Health Record-related factors. By doing a root cause analysis, we eliminated about 1000 unnecessary blood draws monthly. Cool informatics work by smart colleagues.
Patients View their Own Radiology Images Online: first published experience (UCHealth)
What uses did they find for these images? Does UCHealth recommend this practice? Did CT Lin get fired as a result of these actions? #hcldr #whyinformatics #hitsm #hotoffthepress