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September 27, 2022
New research will build on findings of study recently published by npj Digital Medicine and policy insights on telehealth access resulting from the first round of funding COLUMBIA, Md. — MedStar...
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January 17, 2019
Washington, D.C., — A growing body of evidence indicates the need for additional evaluation of and improvements to electronic health record systems (EHRs), which have been adopted by the major...
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November 29, 2018On Nov. 29, 2018, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a viewpoint article titled, “Improving Electronic Health Record Usability and Safety Requires Transparency,” by authors from MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, American Medical Association, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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November 05, 2018On Nov. 5, 2018, the health policy journal Health Affairs published an article by MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare and its collaborators titled, “Identifying Electronic Health Record Usability and Safety Challenges in Pediatric Settings.”
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September 11, 2018Experts with MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare have leveraged their past research into the safety and usability of electronic health records (EHRs) to join with The Pew Charitable Trusts in offering recommendations to the federal government for making the health IT systems safer for children, whose unique needs make them particularly vulnerable to documented EHR usability and patient safety issues.
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September 05, 2018On August 28, 2018, The Pew Charitable Trusts released a landmark report providing important criteria to support usability and safety throughout the EHR life cycle.
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August 01, 2018Researchers with MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare have received a U.S. utility patent for a novel system they developed for analyzing eye-tracking data that leverages human insight with machine learning and results in a streamlined, more robust analysis process.