Electronic Health Records and Hospital Librarians

Bushhousen, Ellie

doi:10.1080/15323269.2013.745368

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“…Examples of those tools include health promotion and educational materials embedded in personal health records or patient portals [ 38 , 39 ]. Therefore, health sciences librarians need to serve on health informatics committees and teams to make this information accessible and intelligible to educate and assist users who are unfamiliar with the software through training and instruction [ 40 – 42 ].…”

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Emerging roles of health information professionals for library and information science curriculum development: a scoping review

Stahl

Knotts

2018

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ObjectiveThis scoping review identified the emerging and evolving roles of health information professionals (HIPs) in a range of tasks and settings, as they adapt to varied user needs, while keeping up with changing medical landscapes to provide evidence-based information support in grand rounds and scholarly research. The review aims to inform library school students about expected entry-level job qualifications and faculty about adaptable changes to specialized HIP curricula.MethodsThe authors examined 268 peer-reviewed journal articles that concentrated on evolving HIP roles, professional settings, and contexts by retrieving results from several multidisciplinary databases.ResultsHIPs, who generally serve as “embedded librarians,” are taking on more active roles as collaborators, research experts, and liaisons, replacing more passive and exclusive roles as information providers and outreach agents or research assistants. These evolving roles in the reviewed literature were broken into nine categories in approximate order of prominence.ConclusionsA new model linking these evolving roles to the Medical Library Association (MLA) fundamental professional competencies was developed to provide an operational examination and research-based evidence for adapting HIP continuing education curriculum learning outcomes, course content and delivery, and student career pathways for existing graduate HIP specialization courses in library programs. The model indicates each role’s connection to the MLA professional competencies, based on MLA’s detailed description of each competency. A better understanding of HIP demands and expectations will enhance the capacity of library programs to prepare students in HIP specializations.

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Emerging roles of health information professionals for library and information science curriculum development: a scoping review

Stahl

Knotts

2018

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“…Librarians are uniquely qualified to lead in this area, by ''encouraging adoption and lending expertise in the selection, evaluation, application, and use of these systems'' [10]. Librarians can help to ensure that a new EMR system will be compatible with the health care centre's library system, which is essential if a library's resources are to be linked to EMRs [11].…”

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“…Health librarians have also been involved with EMRs in patient care. Many EMR systems have a patient interface that librarians can use to share consumer health information [11]. In this way, librarians use EMRs to ''[provide] customized groups of relevant and trusted healthcare resources and web sites'' [11].…”

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“…Many EMR systems have a patient interface that librarians can use to share consumer health information [11]. In this way, librarians use EMRs to ''[provide] customized groups of relevant and trusted healthcare resources and web sites'' [11]. Although this is still in the early stages of development, it already allows health librarians at Vanderbilt University's Eskind Biomedical Library to explore new ways of sharing health information.…”

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Emerging Data Management Roles for Health Librarians in Electronic Medical Records

Corbett¹,

Deardorff²,

Kovar-Gough³

2014

J Can Health Libr Assoc

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<p>Objective: To examine current and developing data management roles and opportunities for health librarians<br />to become involved in electronic medical record (EMR) initiatives. This paper focuses on the Canadian context but has implications farther afield. Methods: To accomplish a state-of-the-art review, searches were conducted in the library and information science databases (LISTA, LISA), biomedical databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE), and on the web for grey literature. Keywords included: clinical librarian, health science librarian, medical librarian, hospital librarian, medical informationist, electronic medical record, EMR, electronic health record, EHR, data management, data curation, health informatics, e-science, and e-science librarianship. MeSH subject headings used were: Medical Records Systems, Computerized/, Electronic Health Records/, and libraries/. Results: There is little evidence of Canadian health librarians’ current involvement in EMR initiatives, but examples from the United States indicate that health librarians’ participation is primarily in system implementation, creating links to the medical literature, and using EMRs to provide patient health information. Further roles for health librarians are emerging in this area as health librarians draw on their core competencies and learn from e-science librarianship to create new opportunities. Data management examples from e-science librarianship, such as building data dictionaries and data management plans and infrastructure, give further direction to health librarians’ involvement in EMRs. Conclusion: As EMRs gradually become more popular in Canada, Canadian health librarians should seek further opportunities for education and outreach to become more involved with these EMR initiatives.</p>

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“…eHealth, "the use of information and communication technologies for health" [2], first arose in health care in the form of electronic health records (EHRs) [3]. EHRs consist of individual patient health information compiled during interactions within or across health organizations [1,4]. The switch from paper to EHRs allowed clinicians new avenues of information access and clinical decision support [1].…”

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Exploring digital health care: eHealth, mHealth, and librarian opportunities

Chan¹

2021

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Technology advances in eHealth and mHealth are changing the way that health care consumers and providers communicate, receive and deliver care, and access health information. As electronic health records and smartphones have become ubiquitous in the United States, opportunities and applications for the integration of eHealth and mHealth have increased. In addition to technology advances, the changing health care model is simultaneously adapting to and driving initiatives in digital health care. With these digital initiatives have come challenges, including data overload, security and privacy concerns, deficits in technological and health literacy skills, and sorting through the vast number of choices of digital applications. Navigating this changing landscape can be overwhelming and time consuming for both health care providers and consumers. Librarians are uniquely positioned to assist providers and consumers to break down barriers within the digital health care landscape through data management initiatives, technology and health literacy instruction, and finding and evaluating health information and digital health technologies.

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Electronic Health Records and Hospital Librarians

Cited by 4 publications

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Emerging roles of health information professionals for library and information science curriculum development: a scoping review

Emerging roles of health information professionals for library and information science curriculum development: a scoping review

Emerging Data Management Roles for Health Librarians in Electronic Medical Records

Exploring digital health care: eHealth, mHealth, and librarian opportunities

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