Design and implementation of a clinical rule editor for chronic disease reminders in an electronic medical record.
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.
Gurjar
Rupali
R
Partners Health System, Wellesley, MA, USA.
Li
Qi
Q
Bugbee
Donald
D
Colecchi
Judith
J
Sperling
Michael
M
Karson
Andrew
A
Sequist
Thomas
T
Hongsermeier
Tonya
T
Poon
Eric G
EG
D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D017010:Reminder Systems; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface