Published on in Vol 3, No 3 (2015): Jul-Sep

Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records: Experiences From the Field and Future Opportunities

Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records: Experiences From the Field and Future Opportunities

Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records: Experiences From the Field and Future Opportunities

Sarah Patricia Slight   1, 2 , MPharm,PhD,PGDip ;   Eta S Berner   3 , EdD ;   William Galanter   4 , MS,MD,PhD ;   Stanley Huff   5, 6 , MD ;   Bruce L Lambert   7 , PhD ;   Carole Lannon   8, 9 , MD,MPH ;   Christoph U Lehmann   10 , MD,FAAP,FACMI ;   Brian J McCourt   11 , BA ;   Michael McNamara   12 , MD ;   Nir Menachemi   13 , MPH,PhD ;   Thomas H Payne   14 , MD ;   S Andrew Spooner   15 , MD,MS,FAAP ;   Gordon D Schiff   2, 16 , MD ;   Tracy Y Wang   11 , MD,MHS,MSc ;   Ayse Akincigil   17 , PhD ;   Stephen Crystal   17 , PhD ;   Stephen P Fortmann   18 , MD ;   David W Bates   2, 16 , MD, MSc

1 Division of Pharmacy, School of Medicine Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

2 The Centre for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

3 Center for Health Informatics for Patient Safety/Quality, Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States

4 University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

5 Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

6 Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

7 Center for Communication and Health, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States

8 James M Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children\'s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States

9 Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States

10 Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States

11 Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

12 Departments of Pediatrics and Medical Informatics (DMI), Northwest Permanente, Portland, OR, United States

13 Richard M Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, United States

14 Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

15 Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States

16 Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

17 Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

18 Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, OR, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • David W Bates, MD, MSc
  • The Centre for Patient Safety Research and Practice
  • Division of General Internal Medicine
  • Brigham and Womens Hospital
  • 1620 Tremont Street
  • Boston, MA, MA 02120-1613
  • United States
  • Phone: 1 617 732 5650
  • Fax: 1 617 732 7072
  • Email: dbates@partners.org