Brigham and Women's Hospital
Health Information Technology and Improving Medication Use - 2012
Automated Notification for Followup Testing Recommendations Across Care Settings
This project built an automated intervention that recognized critical imaging results that require additional testing and populated a discharge summary with recommendations, resulting in improved patient followup.
Ensuring Safe Performance of Electronic Health Records
The purpose of this study was to refine and further develop the Leapfrog Computerized Provider Order Entry Evaluation Tool and assess hospital performance on the tool over time.
Massachusetts Office Practice Survey
This is a questionnaire designed to be completed by administrators and clinical staff in an ambulatory setting. The tool includes questions to assess the current state of electronic health records.
Enhancing Medication CPOE Safety and Quality by Indications-Based Prescribing
This project convened stakeholder panels to inform the development of an indications-enabled computerized prescriber order entry system.
NLP to Improve Accuracy and Quality of Dictated Medical Documents
This research studied errors in medical documents created with speech recognition software and developed natural language processing methods to detect such errors.
Electronic Medication Adherence Reporting and Feedback During Care Transitions
This research assessed the utilization of a “smart” pillbox, a prefilled electronic medication tray that sends electronic alerts and reports to patients, caregivers, and primary care providers for patients discharged from the hospital, finding an increased medication adherence among patients on five or more chronic medications.
Interactive Patient-Centered Discharge Toolkit To Promote Self-Management During Transitions
Researchers refined and implemented integrated digital healthcare enhancements to a previously developed, interactive, patient-centered discharge toolkit, finding that while patients used the toolkit, there were no significant changes in post-discharge healthcare utilization.