The effect of physicians' acknowledgement of clinical decision support systems generated alerts on patient diabetes management in a primary care setting Passed
Wednesday May 24, 2023 11:00 - 11:15 G3
Lecturer: Mohammad Faysel
Track: MIE: Decision support
The purpose of the study is to evaluate whether clinician’s acknowledgement and adherence to Clinical Best Practice Advisories (BPA) system’s alerts improve the outcome of patients with chronic diabetes. We used deidentified clinical data of elderly (65 or older) diabetes patients with hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) >= 6.5 that were extracted from the clinical database of a multi-specialty outpatient clinic that also provides primary care services. We performed paired ttest to evaluate whether clinician’s acknowledgement and adherence to BPA system’s alert has any impact on patients' HbA1C management. Our findings showed that the average HbA1C values improved for patients whose alerts were acknowledged by their clinicians. For the group of patients whose BPA alerts were ignored by their clinicians, we found clinicians’ acknowledgement and adherence to BPA alerts for chronic diabetes patient management did not have a significant negative effect on improvement in patient outcome.
Language
English
Seminar type
On site only
Level of knowledge
Advanced
Conference
MIE
Authors
Mohammad Faysel, Tameca Miller, Jonathan Singer, Caroline Cummings
Lecturers
Mohammad Faysel Lecturer
Associate Professor
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences Univerdity
Mohammad Faysel, PhD, FAMIA, is an Associate Professor of Health Informatics in the School of Health Professions at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York. He holds an undergraduate and master's degree in computer science and a Ph.D. in biomedical informatics. His current research interests include using telehealth to reduce healthcare disparities in underserved populations, secondary analysis of large volume of health data to study disparities in the treatment of movement disorders, using datamining to model profile of stroke patients who would be at risk for lost to follow up, and community-based digital health intervention to address unmet needs and enhancing engagement in maternal healthcare, and informatics education and workforce development. The main goal of his research is to develop informatics oriented practical healthcare solutions that impact society. Dr. Faysel is an active member of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is also a member of the CAHIIM’s Health Informatics Accreditation Council.