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Measuring Collaboration Through Concurrent Electronic Health Record Usage: Network Analysis Study

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JMIR MEDICAL INFORMATICS
卷 9, 期 9, 页码 -

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JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC
DOI: 10.2196/28998

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collaboration; electronic health records; audit logs; health care workers; neonatal intensive care unit; network analysis; clustering; visualization; concurrent interaction; human-computer interaction; survey instrument; informatics framework; secondary data analysis

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  1. National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health [R01LM012854, T32LM012412]
  2. National Science Foundation

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Collaboration within healthcare institutions is crucial, and analyzing concurrent electronic health record (EHR) usage can help measure and understand healthcare worker (HCW) collaboration. Significant differences in EHR usage intensity were found among different HCW specialties. Temporal patterns of EHR usage varied between weekdays and weekends, with notable collaborative relationships identified among NICU professionals.
Background: Collaboration is vital within health care institutions, and it allows for the effective use of collective health care worker (HCW) expertise. Human-computer interactions involving electronic health records (EHRs) have become pervasive and act as an avenue for quantifying these collaborations using statistical and network analysis methods. Objective: We aimed to measure HCW collaboration and its characteristics by analyzing concurrent EHR usage. Methods: By extracting concurrent EHR usage events from audit log data, we defined concurrent sessions. For each HCW, we established a metric called concurrent intensity, which was the proportion of EHR activities in concurrent sessions over all EHR activities. Statistical models were used to test the differences in the concurrent intensity between HCWs. For each patient visit, starting from admission to discharge, we measured concurrent EHR usage across all HCWs, which we called temporal patterns. Again, we applied statistical models to test the differences in temporal patterns of the admission, discharge, and intermediate days of hospital stay between weekdays and weekends. Network analysis was leveraged to measure collaborative relationships among HCWs. We surveyed experts to determine if they could distinguish collaborative relationships between high and low likelihood categories derived from concurrent EHR usage. Clustering was used to aggregate concurrent activities to describe concurrent sessions. We gathered 4 months of EHR audit log data from a large academic medical center's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to validate the effectiveness of our framework. Results: There was a significant difference (P<.001) in the concurrent intensity (proportion of concurrent activities: ranging from mean 0.07, 95% CI 0.06-0.08, to mean 0.36, 95% CI 0.18-0.54; proportion of time spent on concurrent activities: ranging from mean 0.32, 95% CI 0.20-0.44, to mean 0.76, 95% CI 0.51-1.00) between the top 13 HCW specialties who had the largest amount of time spent in EHRs. Temporal patterns between weekday and weekend periods were significantly different on admission (number of concurrent intervals per hour: 11.60 vs 0.54; P<.001) and discharge days (4.72 vs 1.54; P<.001), but not during intermediate days of hospital stay. Neonatal nurses, fellows, frontline providers, neonatologists, consultants, respiratory therapists, and ancillary and support staff had collaborative relationships. NICU professionals could distinguish high likelihood collaborative relationships from low ones at significant rates (3.54, 95% CI 3.31-4.37 vs 2.64, 95% CI 2.46-3.29; P<.001). We identified 50 clusters of concurrent activities. Over 87% of concurrent sessions could be described by a single cluster, with the remaining 13% of sessions comprising multiple clusters. Conclusions: Leveraging concurrent EHR usage workflow through audit logs to analyze HCW collaboration may improve our understanding of collaborative patient care. HCW collaboration using EHRs could potentially influence the quality of patient care, discharge timeliness, and clinician workload, stress, or burnout.

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