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Using the Electronic Health Recordto Encourage Evidence-Based Practice
Jonathan S. Einbinder, MD, MPHPartners HealthCare
August 22, 2006
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Outline
Meeting information needs – the challengePotential of electronic health record (and cautions)Partners HealthCare Signature Initiative• Smart Forms• Registries
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24 doctors and students observed• 5 clinical questions per patient• 74% concerned patient care
--Osheroff 1991
Library or
Journal
Synthesis
Medical Record
Patient care information needs in a teaching hospital
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Usefulness of medical information
Usefulness = relevance x validity
work to access
--Shaughnessy, Slawson, Bennett 1994
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The role of technology (the $64 question)
How can informatics applications:• identify information needs?
• provide useful information?
• change clinician behavior?
• change patient behavior?
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A good place to start is basic management of information to help us do things that we know we should do.
Make sure that patients reliably receive interventions known to be beneficial, leading to improved outcomes.
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Getting past 55% performance…
-- EA McGlynn et al. NEJM 2003;348:2635-2645
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Established patient care strategies are not used
Random sample of adults in 12 metro areasSurvey and medical records review439 indicators of quality of care for 30 acute and chronic conditions, as well as preventive careKey finding: Participants received 54.9% of recommended care
-- EA McGlynn et al. NEJM 2003;348:2635-2645
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Impediments to using current best evidence in clinical practice
When to look for new evidence
Where to locate relevant information
How to synthesize it to determine optimal approach
--Haynes et al., JAMIA 1995
Technology (electronic health record) can facilitate effective use of information
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Diabetes Population Management
Intervention: • “Novel” population management software (registry)• NP used weekly and emailed suggestions to PCPs.
Results: More testing (A1C and LDL) at intervention clinic. No significant effect for med prescription, LDL and A1C levels.
Grant et al. Diabetes Care 2004;27(10):2299-2305
But, consider the following examples:
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OnCall: Population Management for Diabetes
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OnCall: Population Management for Diabetes
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Intervention: Evidence-based cardiac care suggestions, approved by a panel of local cardiologists and general internists, were displayed to physicians and pharmacists as they cared for enrolled patients. Results: The intervention had no effect on physicians' adherence to the care suggestions (23% for intervention patients versus 22% for controls).
Tierney et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2003;18(12):1060-1.
Computerized reminders for CHF/CAD
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Computerized reminders for diabetes and CAD
Intervention: Computerized reminders.Results: Diabetes reminders resulted in the recommended action in 19% of patients in the intervention group versus 14% of patients in the control group. Annual cholesterol testing HR 1.41, 95% CI 1.15–1.72• ACE inhibitors HR 1.42, 95% CI 0.94–2.14• Statin use – NS• Annual eye exam - NS
Sequist et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005;12:431–437.
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LMR Summary with diabetes reminders
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Problem: Proven effective medical interventions are not uniformly applied across health care settings.
Goal: Set standards, improve clinical performance, and achieve national leadership levels of performance reliably across the system.
• Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)• Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)• Diabetes• Pneumonia • Smoking cessation
Partners Signature Initiative III Goals and Scope
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EMR Framework
Adoption
Get an EMRand use it
Adoption
Get an EMRand use it
Effective Use
Use key EMRfeatures fully
Effective Use
Use key EMRfeatures fully
Smart Use
Leverage EMR
decision support
Smart Use
Leverage EMR
decision support
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Diabetes Decision Support Team
Goal: Increase the number of providers using and patients with diabetes being managed with standard evidence-based decision support.How:• Develop and deploy an integrated suite of information
system tools to assist providers in caring for their diabetic patients. Specifically, this suite will include the Diabetes Smart Form, the Diabetes Registry, and the Diabetes Population Manager.
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What are Smart Forms?
Composite application for clinicians, combining documentation, orders, decision support• Use by clinician during an office visit• Support efficient workflow with decision support
Built upon a foundation of clinical applications and services• Data review• Documentation• Actionable decision support and orders
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Decision Support: Highlights
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Actionable decision support and orders
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Smart Form originsAHRQ Smart Forms and Quality Dashboards grant• 3 year, $1.2M project to evaluate Smart Forms for acute
respiratory infection (ARI) and coronary artery disease (CD) in a randomized trial
Signature Initiative 3• Potential of Smart Forms to promote adherence to evidence-
based guidelines for diabetes. Smart Form for diabetes will be evaluated in randomized trial, along with ARI and CAD.
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Smart Forms: Clinical and Quality Opportunity
Address a critical obstacle to effective use of the EMR: integration of documentation and actionable decision-support in a streamlined workflowPositively impact clinical processes and outcomesPositively impact attainment of performance targets in reimbursement contractsProvide mechanism to help achieve goals and objectives for patient safety, disease management, and trend management (in ambulatory care settings)
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Knowledge Management: Current
Clinical Contentand
Guidelines
FunctionalKnowledge
Specification
For ARI, CAD, DM: Iterative, painstaking, manual process involving clinical sponsors, developers, analysts – shepherded by KM.
• Able to build first Smart Forms• Needs, issues became apparent• Knowledge Specification approach defined.
TechnicalKnowledge
Specification
CodesRulesTemplatesLogic
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Knowledge Management: Future
Over next year, infrastructure and processes will evolve:Tools
•Concept Dictionary•Order Catalogue•Template Editors•Rule Editor
Processes•Guideline approval•Functional knowledge spec.•Technical knowledge spec.•Maintenance and updating
Clinical Contentand
Guidelines
FunctionalKnowledge
Specification
TechnicalKnowledge
Specification
CodesRulesTemplatesLogic
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