Information management for clinicians

Neil B Mehta; Stephen A Martin; Jack Maypole; Rebecca Andrews

doi:10.3949/ccjm.83a.15001

Information management for clinicians

Cleve Clin J Med. 2016 Aug;83(8):589-95. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.83a.15001.

Authors

Neil B Mehta^{1

2}, Stephen A Martin^{3

4

5}, Jack Maypole^{6

7}, Rebecca Andrews^{8

9

10}

Affiliations

¹ Assistant Dean, Education Informatics and Technology, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
² Director, Center for Technology Enhanced Knowledge and Instruction, and Department of General Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. E-mail: mehtan@ccf.org.
³ Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Affiliate Faculty, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Project Director, TandemHealth.
⁶ Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Principal Investigator, Massachusetts Alliance for Complex Care/4C Program, a CMS Health Innovations grant shared by Boston Medical Center and Baystate Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁸ Director of Ambulatory Education, Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Farmington, CT, USA.
⁹ Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT, USA.
¹⁰ Connecticut Institute for Primary Care Innovation, Farmington, CT, USA.

PMID: 27505880
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.83a.15001

Abstract

Clinicians are bombarded with information daily by social media, mainstream television news, e-mail, and print and online reports. They usually do not have much control over these information streams and thus are passive recipients, which means they get more noise than signal. Accessing, absorbing, organizing, storing, and retrieving useful medical information can improve patient care. The authors outline how to create a personalized stream of relevant information that can be scanned regularly and saved so that it is readily accessible.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Clinical Medicine*
Health Information Management / methods*
Humans