Secondary Use of Electronic Health Record Data for Prediction of Outpatient Visit Length in Ophthalmology Clinics.

In this study, we address this challenge by developing and validating analytic models for predicting patient encounter length based on secondary EHR data. Key findings from this study are: (1) Secondary use of EHR data may be captured to predict provider interaction time with patients; (2) Modeling results using secondary data may provide more accurate predictions of provider interaction time than an expert provide; (3) These findings suggest that secondary use of EHR data may be used to develop effective customized scheduling methods to improve clinical efficiency. In the future, this has the potential to contribute toward methods for improved clinical scheduling and efficiency. PMID: 30815183 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings - Category: Bioinformatics Tags: AMIA Annu Symp Proc Source Type: research