title: Design and implementation of a clinical rule editor for chronic disease reminders in an electronic medical record.
abstract: Clinical reminders have well-documented benefits in improving quality of care. Once clinicians approve evidence-based rules, they should be quickly implemented. However, most of the reminders in our home-grown EMR historically were hard-coded, making it difficult to maintain old rules and implement new ones. We designed a web-based editor to make rule logic readable and editable by non-programmers. We hope to decrease the turnaround time of reminder authoring and maintenance, thereby improving quality of care.
authors.affiliation: Partners Health System, Wellesley, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Rupali
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gurjar
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bugbee
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Colecchi
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sperling
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karson
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sequist
authors.forename: Tonya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hongsermeier
authors.forename: Eric G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Poon
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D017010:Reminder Systems; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface