The American Medical Association this week announced nine new healthcare organizations that will split nearly $600,000 as part of a Research Grants Program using electronic health records.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
This group of grantees will save about $589,000 from the AMA as they study trends and patterns in how their doctors and nurses use EHRs every day.
The goal of the EHR Utilization Research Grants Program — which has awarded more than $2 million since 2019 to fund more than two dozen studies across a variety of EHR-related institutions and topics — is to learn more about Using IT to help find ways to prevent clinician burnout and staff turnover, and innovating new workflows that improve patient care, teamwork, and distribution. better resource allocation.
This year, AMA-funded studies aimed to learn more about the relationship between EHR use and physicians’ cognitive load. In addition, they will explore the relationship between the use of EHR and the team structure and processes of the care team.
The nine health systems selected to fund research this year are:
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AllianceChicago will use EHR event log data to explore both the prevalence and drivers of the ongoing relationship between patients, physicians, and primary care care teams.
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital will investigate the factors that influence the amount of time EHR is spent and the impact of inbox messages on EHR burden, all in primary care settings.
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MedStar will research primary care physician EHR mailbox preferences.
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Stanford University School of Medicine will use EHR event log data and other data to assess the frequency of text messaging in an inpatient setting; relationship between team stability and inbox message frequency, and whether higher text message interruptions during order entry are associated with increased order entry errors.
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The University of California San Francisco will assess the impact of e-visit billing on clinicians’ EHR mailbox time, work on EHRs after the patient’s scheduled hours, and overall EHR burden.
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The University of Colorado School of Medicine will investigate whether inpatient EHR-based audit log data can serve as a useful tool in determining when to design work and workloads. lead to physician burnout and harm to patients.
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison will use EHR event log data to investigate the link between the team’s support for drug orders and the time doctors spend entering orders and time in boxes. incoming mail in primary care.
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Wake Forest University School of Medicine will evaluate the time primary care physicians spend with the EHR during paid leave.
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The Yale School of Medicine will expand on previous Yale research into physician retention, clinical productivity, and patterns of EHR use in the emergency department.
ON PROFILE
“The Research Grants Program using EHR allows the AMA to partner with researchers who are working to broaden their understanding of EHR systems and measure technology’s ability to support or undermine provides effective and efficient clinical work,” said AMA’s Vice President of Expertise, Dr. Christine Sinsky in a statement.
“Heavy EHR systems are a leading contributor to the physician burnout crisis and require urgent action as outlined in the AMA Recovery Plan for US Physicians. Research supported by the AMA grant program builds an evidence base to help transform EHR technology into an asset to medical care, and not a disheartening burden.”
