A Method to Improve Availability and Quality of Patient Race Data in an Electronic Health Record System.

Journal: Applied clinical informatics
Published Date: Nov 25, 2020

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Although federal regulations mandate documentation of structured race data according to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) categories in electronic health record (EHR) systems, many institutions have reported gaps in EHR race data that hinder secondary use for population-level research focused on underserved populations. When evaluating race data available for research purposes, we found our institution's enterprise EHR contained structured race data for only 51% (1.6 million) of patients.

Authors

  • Marika M Cusick
    Information Technologies and Services Department, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States.
  • Evan T Sholle
    Information Technologies and Services Department, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
  • Marcos A Davila
    Information Technologies & Services Department, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
  • Joseph Kabariti
    Information Technologies and Services Department, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States.
  • Curtis L Cole
    Information Technologies and Services Department, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States.
  • Thomas R Campion
    Information Technologies and Services Department, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.

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