title: Assessing Impressions of Community Health Worker Use of Tablet-Based Medication Documentation Software.
abstract: Community health workers, an important and emerging role in the evolution of the care delivery system, are uniquely positioned to play a vital role in information gathering and exchange. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital carried out a feasibility study to assess community health worker use and impressions of a medication documentation application that runs on a tablet. The nine community health workers successfully collected data on 16 patients in the home setting. On average, 10 medications were collected per patient, and the average time to collect the medication data was 1 hour. Key findings from the focus groups included the need for additional training and the desire to use the device to streamline other documentation activities. In general, the software was judged to be suitable for the proposed task and represents a starting point for further use of tools that leverage the community health worker in a team-based workflow.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliations: Department of Information Services (Ms Tiase, Dr Kuperman) and Ambulatory Care Network (Mss Peretz, Cartwright, and Cruz), NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; ActualMeds (Mss Biernacki and Meisner); and Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University (Dr Kuperman), New York, NY.
authors.forename: Victoria L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Tiase
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Peretz
authors.forename: Anne Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Biernacki
authors.forename: Patricia S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Meisner
authors.forename: Crystal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cartwright
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cruz
authors.forename: Gilad J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Kuperman
mesh_terms: D003150:Community Health Workers; D034201:Computers, Handheld / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004282:Documentation; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D055118:Medication Adherence; D009519:New York City; D012984:Software