Who Is Your Doctor? Analysis of Patient-Reported and EHR-Imputed Primary Care Physician

摘要：

　　Significant efforts have been made to improve physician-to-physician communication and care coordination during transition of care in order to reduce adverse events and readmissions. As electronic health records (EHRs) become widely available, many hospitals have implemented physician collaboration and hand-off tools to automatically send admission notifications, discharge summaries, and pending laboratory results to a patients primary care physician (PCP). However, the effectiveness of such tools depends on a fundamental question that remains unstudied: who is the patients PCP? Missing or outdated PCP information may become the bottleneck to effective patient-centered care coordination regardless of existing efforts on promoting interoperability among healthcare providers. In this paper, we characterized patient-reported PCPs and experimented with an imputation algorithm that automatically infers a patients primary provider based on patient-provider encounter data. We compared the imputation results with patient-reported PCPs and suggested practical uses of our findings.

关键词： Physicians,Primary Care Patient-reported Care Coordination

作者: Shan He Sue Dintelman Jake Sangster Darren K.Mann Thierry Guillerm Sidney N.Thornton

作者单位: Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research,Intermountain Healthcare,Salt Lake City,Utah,USA Utah Health Information Network,Murray,Utah,USA Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research,Intermountain Healthcare,Salt Lake City,Utah,USA;Depart

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第十六届世界医药健康信息学大会((MEDINFO2017)、第二届世界医药健康信息学华语论坛(WCHIS 2017)、第15届全国医药信息学大会(CMIA 2017)

会议地点: 苏州

会议语种:英文

页码: 103-107

在线出版日期: 2017-08-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）