Electronic Health Record Usability Issues and Potential Contribution to Patient Harm

Jessica L Howe; Katharine T Adams; A Zachary Hettinger; Raj M Ratwani

doi:10.1001/jama.2018.1171

Electronic Health Record Usability Issues and Potential Contribution to Patient Harm

JAMA. 2018 Mar 27;319(12):1276-1278. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.1171.

Authors

Jessica L Howe¹, Katharine T Adams¹, A Zachary Hettinger¹, Raj M Ratwani¹

Affiliation

¹ National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, MedStar Health, Washington, DC.

Abstract

This study analyzed patient safety reports in and near Pennsylvania from 2013 through 2016 to identify those that contained explicit language associating possible patient harm with an electronic health record usability issue.

MeSH terms

Databases as Topic
Electronic Health Records* / standards
Health Information Interoperability*
Humans
Medical Errors / statistics & numerical data*
Mid-Atlantic Region
Patient Harm*
Risk Management
User-Computer Interface*
Workflow

Grants and funding

R01 HS023701/HS/AHRQ HHS/United States