CRCS Postdoc Shiri Assis-Hassid will lead a CRCS Act on her work, "Assessing the integration of EMRs into the inpatient workflow."

Please join us for lunch and this informal discussion!

Title: Assessing the integration of EMRs into the inpatient workflow

Abstract: Electronic Medical Record systems (EMRs) have great potential to improve quality of care, efficiency, safety, clinicians' workflows and patients' experience. However, there is a huge gap between EMRs' potential and their actual use by clinicians due to the cognitive, social and technological challenges. Most of the research on EMR integration and its affect on clinicians and patient-centered care has focused on the primary care context. This study focuses on the inpatient setting and aims to find out how the EMR (currently implemented at Brigham and Women's Hospital) is y integrated into the care team's workflow. To what extent does it support : the care team's workflow/s? patient-centered care and clinician-patient communication? care team's/patients’ information requirements?
We aim to Ascertain the ways technology should be integrated into the inpatient setting, whether by offering a system's design, modifications in the current system, hardware recommendations, training needs or forms of intervention for behavioral change.