ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHRs) AND PATIENT WORK INFORMATION
Electronic health records (EHRs) are replacing paper medical records in most medical environments, but EHRs typically do not contain information about patient work.
When it is available, healthcare providers can use information about their patients’ work to provide the most appropriate care. In addition, healthcare organizations can use work information to identify groups of patients who may be at risk for harmful exposures or health problems, or who may benefit from specific interventions.
Patient work information in EHRs and other health information systems also can be used to support public health activities, such as case reporting and disease registries. NIOSH develops tools and investigates best practices that support the inclusion of work information in EHRs and collaborates with federal, state and other partners to ensure that EHRs can be used to improve and track the health of workers.
- The public comment periods for the ONC 21st Century Cures Act proposed rule and the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access proposed rule have been extended an additional 30 days to allow the public additional time to consider the proposed policies in each rule and provide public comment. The comment period for both proposed rules will now close on June 3, 2019. More details and blog posts at https://HealthIT.govExternal
- A summary of the HL7 Informative Work and Health Functional Profile is now available at: http://www.hl7.org/External. The full documents will be available to non-HL7 members on 7/10/19.
- The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is pleased to share the public comment submissions released for Strategy on Reducing Regulatory and Administrative Burden Relating to the use of Health IT and EHRs. https://www.healthit.gov/burdencommentsExternal
- The 2017 JOEM Fast Track paper Recognition of the Relationship Between Patients’ Work and Health: A Qualitative Evaluation of the Need for Clinical Decision Support (CDS) for Worker Health in Five Primary Care PracticesExternal won the 2019 RADM Julia Plotnick Publication Award for Health/Nursing Policy.
- AHRQ Blog: Building a Future for Shared Clinical Decision SupportExternal
- HHS Releases a New Resource to Help Individuals Access and Use Their Health InformationExternal
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- Incorporating Occupational Information in Electronic Health RecordsExternal
- Office of National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)External
- American Health Information Management Association-Public Health Data Standards Council (AHIMA-PHDSC)External
- HL7External
- IHE InternationalExternal
- Digital BridgeExternal
- CSTE Case Reporting (RCKMS)External
- National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS)
- NNDSS Modernization Initiative (NMI)
- Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age