CRCS Act with Shiri Assis-Hassid

Date: 

Monday, March 28, 2016, 11:30am

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Shiri Assis-Hassid: "Assessing the integration of EMRs into the inpatient workflow"

Discussion leader: Shiri Assis-Hassid (CRCS Fellow)

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.

Bio: I am a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard's center for computation and society (CRCS). My research focuses on healthcare informatics from an interdisciplinary approach, while integrating theories and tools from different disciplines: medicine, psychology and information systems. So far, my research has focused on the effects of Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) on the doctor-patient interaction and applying methodologies to maximize HIS use and potential without compromising patient-centered care. My current research focuses on user-centered design of HIS in the in-patient setting. My goal is to establish guidelines and methods for optimal use of HIS in the in-patient setting while maintaining patient-centered care. I also wish to highlight the user-centered IS design approach in healthcare as a crucial element for improving usability and user acceptance.