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Health Indicators Within EHR Systems in Primary Care Settings: Availability and Presentation

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Health Information Science (HIS 2016)

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Prevention of disease, in addition to disease treatment, is recognized as an important component of a physician’s role. High-quality prevention services can be used to detect diseases at an early stage, maintain the health of the population, and reduce healthcare costs. Precise and convenient measurement of the quality and delivery of prevention services, however, has not been adequately achieved. In this regard, primary care providers are the main workforce for the delivery of prevention services, and electronic health record (EHR) systems are the routine tools used for such delivery. In this paper, we review and summarize the currently used health indicators for measuring an individual’s health status. We then visit and interview four primary care providers, who use four different EHR/EMR systems, to check the availability and presentation of these health indicators in these systems. We find that there are very limited health indicators available in all four systems. A re-examination of the EHR standards, to include more health indicators to measure prevention, is needed.

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Acknowledgements

Sincere thanks to all of the primary care providers participants as well as to Mr. Steve Davis, Dr. Douglas Bolon, Mr. Mark Bridenbaugh, and Ms. Tasha Penwell for helping us to connect with interviewees.

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  1. The Department of Social and Public Health, College of Health Sciences and Professions, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701, USA

    Xia Jing & Francisca Lekey

  2. Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701, USA

    Abigail Kacpura & Kathy Jefford

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  1. Victoria University , Melbourne, Australia

    Xiaoxia Yin

  2. Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA

    James Geller

  3. Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

    Ye Li

  4. Victoria University , Melbourne, Australia

    Rui Zhou

  5. Centre for Applied Informatics, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Hua Wang

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    Yanchun Zhang

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Jing, X., Lekey, F., Kacpura, A., Jefford, K. (2016). Health Indicators Within EHR Systems in Primary Care Settings: Availability and Presentation. In: Yin, X., Geller, J., Li, Y., Zhou, R., Wang, H., Zhang, Y. (eds) Health Information Science. HIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10038. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48335-1_18

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