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Transcript of EMRs: Meaningful Use and Research
Biomedical Informatics
1/20/12John Sharp, MSSA, PMP, FHIMSSManager, Research Informatics
Quantitative Health Sciences
Outline
1. What is an EMR/EHR? – components
2. History and adoption of EMRs
3. Effectiveness of EMRs
4. Infrastructure - databases, warehouses
5. Standards
6. Meaningful Use
7. Use of EMR data in Research
Why EMRs
What is an EHR/EMRComponents
EMR Components
EMR
Lab
NotesBilling
ADT
OrdersRadiolo
gy
EMR by Workflow
Check inInsurance
VitalsNursing
Medical HxSymptoms
LabRadiology
Results
OrdersPrescriptio
ns
After VisitSummary
Inpatient Workflow
AdmitADT
OrdersFlowshe
et
OrdersNotes
Results
Procedures
ClinicalNotes
ResultsLab
Images
D/COrders
Summary
Brief History of EMRsAnd Adoption Trends
Early History of EMRs
Earliest were in the 1960s
Began with lab systems and ADT (Admission, Discharge, Transfer)
1970s and 1980s – slow progress as technologies improved to include separate systems for nursing, physicians notes, OR scheduling. Epic Systems founded in 1980s
1990s – better integration of systems, first web-based systems
EMR Adoption
Hsiao et al. (2010); CDC/NCHS, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.
Wiring the Health System
Theoretical arguments – better coordination of care through information sharing
Empirical Rationale – Using health information technology to improve quality and efficiency of care – VA and Kaiser as examples of early EMR adopters
---------------------------------David Blumenthal, MD, MPP – former director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in NEJM, 12/15/11
Effectiveness of EMRs
EMRs and Quality of Care
EMR and Quality of Care
Achievement of composite standards for diabetes care was 35.1 percentage points higher at EHR sites than at paper-based sites
Achievement of composite standards for outcomes was 15.2 percentage points higher
Across all insurance types, EHR sites were associated with significantly higher achievement of care and outcome standards and greater improvement in diabetes care
Better Health Greater Cleveland
Patricia SengstackCPOE Configuration to Reduce Medication Errors,JHIM, Fall 2010 - Volume 24(4)26-32
EMR Alert TypesClinical Decision Support
Target Area of Care Example
Preventive care Immunization, screening, disease management guidelines for secondary prevention
Diagnosis Suggestions for possible diagnoses that match a patient’s signs and symptoms
Planning or implementing treatment
Treatment guidelines for specific diagnoses, drug dosage recommendations, alerts for drug-drug interactions
Followup management Corollary orders, reminders for drug adverse event monitoring
Hospital, provider efficiency Care plans to minimize length of stay, order sets
Cost reductions and improved patient convenience
Duplicate testing alerts, drug formulary guidelines
Unintended Consequences of Health IT
Pittsburgh
Specific order sets designed for critical care were not created.
Changes in workflow were not sufficiently predicted, resulting in a breakdown of communication between nurses and physicians.
Orders for patients arriving via critical care transportation could not be written before the patients arrived at the hospital, delaying life-saving treatments.
Changes, unrelated to the CPOE system, were made in the administration and dispensing of medication that further frustrated the clinical staff, for example: At the same time the CPOE system was installed, the satellite
pharmacy serving the neonatal ICU was closed and medications had to be obtained from the central pharmacy, delaying treatment.
Emergency prescriptions were required to be preapproved and all drugs were moved to the central pharmacy.
A Look at Implementing CPOE
Reducing Unintended Consequences of Electronic Health Records
http://www.ucguide.org/understand-identify/understand.html
Infrastructuredatabases, warehouses
EMR Databases
Relational vs. Non- relational
Microsoft SQL - relational
Oracle - relational
MySQL – open source
Intersystems Cache – Epic (object database which can handle large volumes of transactional data)
Data Warehouses
Also called Clinical Data Repositories
Collection of all clinical data for reporting, research, quality improvement, clinical decision support
Requires interfaces with multiple systems, data mapping and harmonization
Enables data mining, extraction of data sets
EMR Standards and Vocabularies
ICD9, ICD10
CPTLOINC
SNOMED-CT
HL7DICOMUMLS
ICD9 – ICD10
15,000 Diagnoses
Grouped by disease category
Drive the Problem List in most EMRs
Also used for billing
Transition to ICD10 68,000 codes– by July 2013– Cleveland Clinic using a product by IMO to ease the transition. Already in use for problem list and encounter diagnoses.
https://www.cms.gov/ICD9ProviderDiagnosticCodes/
http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/
1. INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES (001-139)2. NEOPLASMS (140-239)3. ENDOCRINE, NUTRITIONAL AND METABOLIC DISEASES, AND IMMUNITY
DISORDERS (240-279)4. DISEASES OF THE BLOOD AND BLOOD-FORMING ORGANS (280-289)5. MENTAL DISORDERS (290-319)6. DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND SENSE ORGANS (320-389)7. DISEASES OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM (390-459)8. DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM (460-519)9. DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM (520-579)10. DISEASES OF THE GENITOURINARY SYSTEM (580-629)11. COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH, AND THE PUERPERIUM
(630-679)12. DISEASES OF THE SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE (680-709)13. DISEASES OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE
(710-739)14. CONGENITAL ANOMALIES (740-759)15. CERTAIN CONDITIONS ORIGINATING IN THE PERINATAL PERIOD (760-779)16. SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, AND ILL-DEFINED CONDITIONS (780-799)17. INJURY AND POISONING (800-999)
ICD9 Code Categorization
CPT - procedures
Current Procedural Terminology
Includes everything from phlebotomy to major surgeries
Number: 7800
Added procedures as needed
Controlled by the AMA
CPT Categories
1. Evaluation and Management
2. Anesthesiology3. Surgery4. Radiology5. Pathology and
Laboratory6. Medicine
Examples99253 Initial inpatient consultation11770 Excision of pilonidal cyst or
sinus; simple33512 Coronary artery bypass, vein
only, four coronary venous grafts62270 Spinal puncture, lumbar,
diagnostic76498 Unlisted diagnostic
radiographic procedures78205 Liver imaging (SPECT)86900 Blood typing, ABO93010 Electrocardiogram, routine
ECG with at least 12 leads; tracing only without interpretation or report
LOINC
Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes terminology
LOINC codes are intended to identify the test result or clinical observation
Provides a set of universal names and ID codes for identifying laboratory and clinical test results
Number: 100,000
Includes: name of the component, timing of the measurement, type of sample (serum, urine, etc.), scale of measurement
Used by almost all lab systems and EMRs
Managed by the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. at University of Indiana
SNOMED-CT
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms
Comprehensive clinical terminology
Over 300,000 concept codes
Helpful in software development to map data to medical concepts
Also includes relationships between concepts, such as, knee ‘is a’ body part
HL7 – Health Level 7
A messaging language for health care
Used for real-time data transfer from one system to another - interoperability
Used here for sending data from Lab system to Epic
Standards that permit structured, encoded health care information of the type required to support patient care, to be exchanged between computer applications while preserving meaning
HL7.org
HL7 example - ADT
MSH|^~\&|GHH LAB|ELAB-3|GHH OE|BLDG4|200202150930||ORU^R01|CNTRL-3456|P|2.4<cr>
PID|||555-44-4444||EVERYWOMAN^EVE^E^^^^L|JONES|19620320|F|||153 FERNWOOD DR.^
^STATESVILLE^OH^35292||(206)3345232|(206)752-121||||AC555444444||67-A4335^OH^20030520<cr>
OBR|1|845439^GHH OE|1045813^GHH LAB|15545^GLUCOSE|||200202150730|||||||||
555-55-5555^PRIMARY^PATRICIA P^^^^MD^^|||||||||F||||||444-44-4444^HIPPOCRATES^HOWARD H^^^^MD<cr>
OBX|1|SN|1554-5^GLUCOSE^POST 12H CFST:MCNC:PT:SER/PLAS:QN||^182|mg/dl|70_105|H|||F<cr>
For imaging
Designed to ensure the interoperability of systems
Used to: Produce, Store, Display, Process, Send, Retrieve, Query or Print medical images and derived structured documents as well as to manage related workflow.
http://medical.nema.org/
# 0x44 - Item 1: > (0x00080100, SH, "mV") # 0x2 - Code Value OK > (0x00080102, SH, "UCUM") # 0x4 - Coding Scheme Designator OK > (0x00080103, SH, "1.4") # 0x4 - Concept group revision OK > (0x00080104, LO, "millivolt") # 0xA - Code Meaning OK > (0x003A0212, DS, "1") # 0x2 - Sensitivity correction factor OK > (0x003A0213, DS, "0") # 0x2 - Channel baseline OK > (0x003A0214, DS, "0") # 0x2 - Channel Time skew OK > (0x003A021A, US, 0x0010) # 0x2 - Bits per sample OK > (0x003A0220, DS, ".05") # 0x4 - Filter low frequency OK > (0x003A0221, DS, "100") # 0x4 - filter high frequency OK
DICOMCode
UMLSUnified Medical Language System
Integrates and distributes key terminology, classification and coding standards to promote more effective and interoperable biomedical information systems and services, including electronic health records
100 source vocabularies in the UMLS Metathesaurus
Includes SNOMED-CT, LOINC, others
From the National Library of Medicine
Meaningful UseOf EMRs
EMR Incentives $44,000 over five years for eligible
professionals
Must show meaningful use
Must be an approved EMR
Program to assist small practices -REC
Most health systems have or are in process
Meaningful Use
Meaningful Use
Eligible Hospital Meaningful Use Table of Contents
Core and Menu Set Objectives
https://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/Downloads/Hosp_CAH_MU-TOC.pdf
Use of EMRs in Research
Basis for Research
Integrating research workflow into the EMR Clinical trial patient calendar
A rich source of clinical data – data mining
Data is from real clinical situations, unlike highly controlled clinical trials
But is messy – not always easy to compare groups, clinical events are not in a standard sequence
Missing data
How to Begin
Research question
Define cohort – inclusion, exclusion criteria
Data elements to be included
Statistical tests to be utilized – descriptive statistics or more
Modify cohort or data elements
Analyze results
Retrospective Cohort Studies
Descriptive
Typically utilizes discrete data elements in the EHR
Internal validation recommended – comparing a random sample of patients in the database with what is documented in the front end of the EHR
Example: Development and Validation of an Electronic Health Record–Based Chronic Kidney Disease Registry
Prospective Cohort Studies
Prospective in the sense that measurements are taken from the EMR at specific time points
Time points need to be within a given range, for instance, 1 year after time zero plus or minus one month
Missing data may eliminate patients from the cohort
Example: Underdiagnosis of Hypertension in Children and Adolescents
Prospective Studies
Begin collecting data from the EMR at a specific time point
May also include manual data collection
Example – biomarker for infection in the ICU
EMR Data in ResearchExample
Chronic Kidney Disease Registry
Established 2009
60,000 patients from the health system
Cohort – Adults with two eGFRs less than 60 within 3 months, outpatient results only, or diagnosis of CKD
http://www.chrp.org/pdf/HSR_12022011_Slides.pdf
Registry Validation
Validation Results
Our dataset’s agreement with EHR-extracted data for documentation of the presence and absence of comorbid conditions, ranged from substantial to near perfect agreement.
Hypertension and coronary artery disease were exceptions
65% sensitivity
50% negative predictive value
Registry Results
2011
5 out of 5 abstracts accepted to American Society of Nephrology annual meeting
Three papers accepted to nephrology journals
NIH grant
Partnerships with other research centers
Upcoming Publication
Book chapter on eResearch
Editor, Rob Hoyt, University of West Florida
http://www.uwf.edu/sahls/medicalinformatics/