From the article: "Too many medication alerts exist in electronic health records, and often times those alerts contain warnings that are too detailed to help busy clinicians, according to a new study by Indianapolis' Regenstrief Institute and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The institute calls the study first "in-depth look" at how physicians react to such alerts in EHRs…. Their paper, published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics, notes that prescribers were sometimes unsure of why an alert was appearing. The prompts seemed to be more oriented to pharmacists than doctors or nurses, despite the fact that the latter were the alerts' main recipients." Read more
See Also
Russ, Alissa and A. Zillich, M. McManus, B. Doebbeling, & J. Saleem. "Prescribers’ Interactions With Medication Alerts at the Point of Prescribing: A Multi-method, In Situ Investigation of the Human–Computer Interaction." International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 232-243, April 2012.
