Abstract
Over the past 10 years, there has been a significant increase in the number of electronic health records (EHRs) used worldwide. EHRs are being increasingly used across the health-care continuum from the physician’s office to hospitals and from in-home care to long-term care settings. With this rise in EHR usage, there is a need for physicians and other health professionals to develop EHR-related competencies alongside traditional patient management and treatment competencies as part of their undergraduate education. As technological advances such as EHRs are incorporated into routine health-care delivery, there will be a need to (a) determine the types of EHR competencies that are necessary for medical students to become EHR literate; (b) investigate how EHR competencies can be developed using EHR simulators and computerized patient mannequins; (c) develop objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) for the purpose of testing medical and EHR competencies for medical education; (d) develop several EHR OSCEs designed to evaluate EHR competencies; (e) pilot test and evaluate the developed OSCEs; (f ) evaluate developed EHR OSCEs with students, faculty, and medical and health informatics experts; and (g) implement them in traditional medical curricula.
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Borycki, E., Kushniruk, A., Khan, S., Zibrik, L., Campbell, R., Ho, K. (2012). Evaluating Electronic Health Record Competencies: New Trends and Approaches Involving Simulations. In: Ho, K., Jarvis-Selinger, S., Novak Lauscher, H., Cordeiro, J., Scott, R. (eds) Technology Enabled Knowledge Translation for eHealth. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3495-5_3
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