Purpose Although some progress has been made in recent years, training in how to counsel patients effectively on complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) is not widely integrated into undergraduate medical education. Our purpose in this study was to evaluate the impact of a teaching intervention utilizing the electronic medical record (EMR) as a point-of-care learning tool on students’ attitude...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of billing and clinical data extracted from an electronic medical record system on the calculation of an adverse drug event (ADE) quality measure approved for use in The Joint Commission's ORYX program, a mandatory national hospital quality reporting system. DESIGN The Child Health Corporation of America's "Use of Rescue Agents-ADE Trigger" quality measure uses...

This article presents a study to evaluate the accuracy of drug interaction (DI) alerts triggered by two electronic medical record (EMR) systems in primary healthcare. A scenario-based software architecture analysis methodology (SAAM) was used with drug-drug interaction (DDI) pairs in hypothetical patient scenarios. A literature search identified common drugs used in the management of conditions...