Pathologists' place in the electronic health record landscape.
With growth spurred by recent federal efforts, electronic health records (EHRs) are transforming the practice of medicine and have important implications for pathologists, their laboratories, and the patients they serve. Beyond new EHR-related regulatory requirements, EHRs fundamentally alter the way clinicians interact with laboratory information, including test order entry and result reviewing. This article is the first in a series of 5 related articles whose goal is to provide a "framework" for empowering pathologists to adapt to, and to succeed in, the era of expanding EHR use. This series aims to describe the environment for EHR uptake, to raise awareness of EHR-related issues that pathologists and laboratories face, and to explore new professional roles for pathologists as stewards of patients' laboratory information in EHRs.
From the Center for Pathology Informatics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio (Dr Henricks); the Division of Laboratory Medicine, Geisinger Medical Laboratories, Danville, Pennsylvania (Dr Wilkerson); the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania (Dr Castellani); the Diagnostic Intelligence and Health Information Technology Committee, College of American Pathologists, Northfield, Illinois (Dr Whitsitt); and the Informatics Program, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, (Dr Sinard).
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D057286:Electronic Health Records; D006801:Humans; D010338:Pathology, Clinical / Q000379:methods*