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This section contains resources that help health centers to successfully implement EHRs, including leadership teams needed, workflow adoption, transitioning between EHRs, meaningful use, and patient safety issues.

Implementing EHR
Event date: 5/30/2017 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Export event
Optimizing the Presentation and Visualization of Health Data for Patients and Providers
Alyssa Thomas
/ Categories: EHR Implementation, Communicating with Data, HIT Events

Optimizing the Presentation and Visualization of Health Data for Patients and Providers

An AHRQ Webinar

This webinar discussed methods for optimizing the presentation of health data for both providers and patients. Presenters discussed methods for presenting meaningful displays of medical test result data to patients for improved understanding and described two EHR usability studies around navigators and clinical note organization to improve the efficiency of provider documentation. 

Objectives:
  1. Describe the challenges patients face in understanding medical test data and present evidence-based methods to overcome these barriers and help patients make sense of the data, manage their health, and make choices about their care.
  2. Describe findings around EHR navigator usage and clinical note organization with usability studies to support improved provider workflow.

Presenters:
  • Brian Zikmund-Fisher, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health and Research Associate Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School
  • Genevieve Melton-Meaux, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, FASCRS, FACMI, Associate Professor of Surgery and Health Informatics Core Faculty, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and Chief Health Information Officer, Fairview Health Services and University of Minnesota Physicians

Moderator:
  • Chun-Ju (Janey) Hsiao, Ph.D. M.H.S., Health Scientist Administrator, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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This resource collection was compiled by the HITEQ Center staff with guidance from HITEQ Advisory Committee members and collaborators of the HITEQ Center.