Developing an EMR Simulator to Assess Users' Perception of Document Quality

Simulators are used in research and training because they provide a realistic and safe environment for participants. In the course of conducting a comprehensive study of patient care documentation in electronic medical record (EMR) systems we found that use of a simulated EMR system could address logistic and conceptual barriers encountered in deploying a research instrument to assess user perceptions of patient care document quality. Designed for use by practitioners, nurses, and administrators at four VA hospital sites, the web-based EMR simulator presents clinical documents as they appear in VA’s CPRS production EMR, and administers a document quality assessment questionnaire. The EMR simulator was developed to overcome the contradiction of studying computerized documents with a paper instrument, to permit self-administration at multiple sites and to manage data collection. This paper discusses the motivation to evaluate EMR document quality, development of the quality questionna...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, Kenric W. Hammond, Ryan Laundry, Stephen M. Thielke
• Keywords: Biometrics, Document Quality, EMR Simulator, HICSS 2010, System Sciences, Web-based Emr Simulator