This activity is intended for healthcare providers delivering care to women and their families.
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
1. Discuss the potential benefits of the electronic medical record (EMR)
2. Explain one of the reasons why healthcare providers may find EMRs challenging
Estimated time to complete activity: 0.25 hours
Susan J. Gross, MD, FRCSC, FACOG, FACMG
President and CEO, The ObG Project
Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) requires instructors, planners, managers and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest (COI) they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified COI are thoroughly vetted and resolved according to PIM policy. PIM is committed to providing its learners with high quality CME activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.
Faculty: Susan J. Gross, MD, receives consulting fees from Genoox, Inc., and has financial interest in The ObG Project, Inc.
Planners and Managers: The PIM planners and managers, Trace Hutchison, PharmD, Samantha Mattiucci, PharmD, CHCP, Judi Smelker-Mitchek, MBA, MSN, RN, and Jan Schultz, MSN, RN, CHCP have nothing to disclose.
Fees for participating and receiving CME credit for this activity are as posted on The ObG Project website. During the period from Oct 29 2018 through Oct 29 2019, participants must read the learning objectives and faculty disclosures and study the educational activity.
If you wish to receive acknowledgment for completing this activity, please complete the post-test and evaluation. Upon registering and successfully completing the post-test with a score of 100% and the activity evaluation, your certificate will be made available immediately.
For Pharmacists: Upon successfully completing the post-test with a score of 100% and the activity evaluation form, transcript information will be sent to the NABP CPE Monitor Service within 4 weeks.
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and The ObG Project. Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this continuing education activity for 0.25 contact hour(s) (0.25 CEUs) of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. (Universal Activity Number – JA4008162-9999-18-414-H04-P)
Type of Activity: Knowledge
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 0.2 contact hours.
The conversion to electronic health record (EHR) is supposed to improve patient care and reduce incidence of medical error by
However, healthcare providers continue to find EHRs challenging, especially when it comes to user experience. Usability challenges lead to inefficiencies that contribute to clinician frustration and patient dissatisfaction. Common complaints include screen displays that have confusing layouts and extraneous information coupled with workflow sequences that are redundant and burdensome. Then, there are alerts that interrupt workflow with irrelevant information.
A recent study illustrates the wide variability in task duration, clicks, and accuracy when completing basic EH functions across EHR products from the same vendor and between products from different vendors. Time and the number of clicks to perform certain tasks varied almost tenfold.
For example, a simple order of Tylenol had an error rate ranging from 0 to 30 percent. It took from a low of 14 clicks to a high of 62, with a time range from 45 seconds to 1 minute 10 seconds.
Why do these variations occur, considering that EHR vendors are required to provide a user-centered design approach and conduct usability testing of certain EHR features near the end of the development process? A major culprit is local site customization, meaning that the layout and type of information presented on the screen can be altered. There are no performance guidelines or mandated requirements for testing the usability and safety of implemented EHRs. Perhaps the time has come for mandated performance standards to help ensure that all implemented EHRs have usable and safe systems that reduce both medical error rate and click rate.
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This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.
The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information
presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.
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