The Yale School of Medicine April 1 announced that researcher Dr. Rohan Khera, assistant professor of medicine and investigator at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, has received a K23 career development grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Khera is a cardiologist with expertise in data science, health policy and healthcare quality, Yale said in a news release.
The grant, âEvaluating and Improving Utilization of Evidence-Based Medical Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure using Automated Tools in the Electronic Health Record,â allows Khera to develop automated tools that incorporate both structured and unstructured data elements from the electronic health record in defining care quality.
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While the shift to electronic health records (EHR) in the medical profession was supposed to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare for doctors and patients alike, many physicians have given the technology low grades.
A new Yale study digs into the data on how physicians are using EHRs, including how time spent using the systems differs by specialty, and what these findings reveal about how the technology can be improved.
One of the key findings is that female physicians spend an average of 30 minutes more per day using EHRs than their male colleagues. The results were published April 5 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. A related article appeared the same day in JAMA Network.
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