title: Practical choices for infobutton customization: experience from four sites.
abstract: Context-aware links between electronic health records (EHRs) and online knowledge resources, commonly called "infobuttons" are being used increasingly as part of EHR "meaningful use" requirements. While an HL7 standard exists for specifying how the links should be constructed, there is no guidance on what links to construct. Collectively, the authors manage four infobutton systems that serve 16 institutions. The purpose of this paper is to publish our experience with linking various resources and specifying particular criteria that can be used by infobutton managers to select resources that are most relevant for a given situation. This experience can be used directly by those wishing to customize their own EHRs, for example by using the OpenInfobutton infobutton manager and its configuration tool, the Librarian Infobutton Tailoring Environment.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Informatics Development, NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD ; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY.
authors.forename: James J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Cimino
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY ; Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: Casey L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Overby
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
authors.forename: Emily B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Devine
authors.affiliation: Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, Utah.
authors.forename: Nathan C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Hulse
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Informatics Development, NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Xia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Jing
authors.affiliation: Partners Healthcare, Boston, MA.
authors.forename: Saverio M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Maviglia
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
authors.forename: Guilherme
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Del Fiol
mesh_terms: D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D057208:Health Level Seven; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D016245:Librarians; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D014584:User-Computer Interface