The stroke navigator: meaningful use of the electronic health record to efficiently report inpatient stroke care quality. (16th August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nathan, Jay K; Foley, Jenevra; Hoang, Tiffany; Hiner, Jim; Brooks, Stephanie; Gendreau, Julian L; Meurer, William J; Pandey, Aditya S; Adelman, Eric E
• Is Part Of: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Volume 25:Number 11(2018)
• Page Start: 1534
• Page End: 1539
• Publication Date: 2018-08-16
• Subjects: electronic health records -- stroke -- documentation; Medical informatics -- Periodicals; Information Services -- Periodicals; Medical Informatics -- Periodicals; Médecine -- Informatique -- Périodiques; Informatica; Geneeskunde; Informatique médicale; Computer network resources; Electronic journals; 610.285
• DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocy102
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1067-5027

Abstract

Abstract: To facilitate high-quality inpatient care for stroke patients, we built a system within our electronic health record (EHR) to identify stroke patients while they are in the hospital; capture necessary data in the EHR to minimize the burden of manual abstraction for stroke performance measures, decreasing daily time requirement from 2 hours to 15 minutes; generate reports using an automated process; and electronically transmit data to third parties. Provider champions and support from the EHR development team ensured that we balanced the needs of the hospital with those of frontline providers. This work summarizes the development and implementation of our stroke quality system.