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Identifying and overcoming obstacles to point-of-care data collection for eye care professionals.

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Lobach, DF; Silvey, GM; Macri, JM; Hunt, M; Kacmaz, RO; Lee, PP
Published in: AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
January 2005

Supporting data entry by clinicians is considered one of the greatest challenges in implementing electronic health records. In this paper we describe a formative evaluation study using three different methodologies through which we identified obstacles to point-of-care data entry for eye care and then used the formative process to develop and test solutions to overcome these obstacles. The greatest obstacles were supporting free text annotation of clinical observations and accommodating the creation of detailed diagrams in multiple colors. To support free text entry, we arrived at an approach that captures an image of a free text note and associates this image with related data elements in an encounter note. The detailed diagrams included a color pallet that allowed changing pen color with a single stroke and also captured the diagrams as an image associated with related data elements. During observed sessions with simulated patients, these approaches satisfied the clinicians' documentation needs by capturing the full range of clinical complexity that arises in practice.

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AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium

EISSN

1942-597X

Publication Date

January 2005

Start / End Page

465 / 469

Related Subject Headings

  • User-Computer Interface
  • Task Performance and Analysis
  • Point-of-Care Systems
  • Patient Simulation
  • Optometry
  • Ophthalmology
  • Medical Records Systems, Computerized
  • Humans
  • Focus Groups
  • Documentation
 

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Lobach, D. F., Silvey, G. M., Macri, J. M., Hunt, M., Kacmaz, R. O., & Lee, P. P. (2005). Identifying and overcoming obstacles to point-of-care data collection for eye care professionals. AMIA ... Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 465–469.
Lobach, David F., Garry M. Silvey, Jennifer M. Macri, Megan Hunt, Roje O. Kacmaz, and Paul P. Lee. “Identifying and overcoming obstacles to point-of-care data collection for eye care professionals.AMIA ... Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, January 2005, 465–69.
Lobach DF, Silvey GM, Macri JM, Hunt M, Kacmaz RO, Lee PP. Identifying and overcoming obstacles to point-of-care data collection for eye care professionals. AMIA . Annual Symposium proceedings AMIA Symposium. 2005 Jan;465–9.
Lobach, David F., et al. “Identifying and overcoming obstacles to point-of-care data collection for eye care professionals.AMIA ... Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, Jan. 2005, pp. 465–69.
Lobach DF, Silvey GM, Macri JM, Hunt M, Kacmaz RO, Lee PP. Identifying and overcoming obstacles to point-of-care data collection for eye care professionals. AMIA . Annual Symposium proceedings AMIA Symposium. 2005 Jan;465–469.

Published In

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium

EISSN

1942-597X

Publication Date

January 2005

Start / End Page

465 / 469

Related Subject Headings

  • User-Computer Interface
  • Task Performance and Analysis
  • Point-of-Care Systems
  • Patient Simulation
  • Optometry
  • Ophthalmology
  • Medical Records Systems, Computerized
  • Humans
  • Focus Groups
  • Documentation