NDLI: Are family physicians comprehensively using electronic medical records such that the data can be used for secondary purposes? A Canadian perspective

Content Provider	Springer Nature : BioMed Central
Author	Tu, Karen Widdifield, Jessica Young, Jacqueline Oud, William Ivers, Noah M. Butt, Debra A. Leaver, Chad A. Jaakkimainen, Liisa
Abstract	Background With the introduction and implementation of a variety of government programs and policies to encourage adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs), EMRs are being increasingly adopted in North America. We sought to evaluate the completeness of a variety of EMR fields to determine if family physicians were comprehensively using their EMRs and the suitability of use of the data for secondary purposes in Ontario, Canada. Methods We examined EMR data from a convenience sample of family physicians distributed throughout Ontario within the Electronic Medical Record Administrative data Linked Database (EMRALD) as extracted in the summer of 2012. We identified all physicians with at least one year of EMR use. Measures were developed and rates of physician documentation of clinical encounters, electronic prescriptions, laboratory tests, blood pressure and weight, referrals, consultation letters, and all fields in the cumulative patient profile were calculated as a function of physician and patient time since starting on the EMR. Results Of the 167 physicians with at least one year of EMR use, we identified 186,237 patients. Overall, the fields with the highest level of completeness were for visit documentations and prescriptions (>70 %). Improvements were observed with increasing trends of completeness overtime for almost all EMR fields according to increasing physician time on EMR. Assessment of the influence of patient time on EMR demonstrated an increasing likelihood of the population of EMR fields overtime, with the largest improvements occurring between the first and second years. Conclusions All of the data fields examined appear to be reasonably complete within the first year of adoption with the biggest increase occurring the first to second year. Using all of the basic functions of the EMR appears to be occurring in the current environment of EMR adoption in Ontario. Thus the data appears to be suitable for secondary use.
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ISSN	14726947
DOI	10.1186/s12911-015-0195-x
Journal	BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	15
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2015-08-13
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Health Informatics Information Systems and Communication Service Management of Computing and Information Systems Electronic medical records Adoption Data completeness Data quality
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Subject	Health Informatics Computer Science Applications Health Policy
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