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Poster · Western Institute of Nursing · 2017

Sequential pattern analysis of nurses’ EHR navigation and documentation

Tolentino, D. A., & Gephart, S. M. (2017). Published in Communicating Nursing Research, 50.

Nursing informaticsEHR workflowData mining
The big idea

An early look at using data patterns to understand how nurses navigate and document in the electronic health record.

Who
Nurses using the electronic health record
How
Sequential pattern analysis of EHR use
What we learned
Early patterns in nurses’ navigation and documentation

In plain language

This early-stage poster explored how sequential pattern analysis could reveal the way nurses navigate and document in the electronic health record (EHR). It was preliminary work in a line of research that later grew into the lab’s computational ethnography studies of EHR workflow.

About this study

An early poster applying sequential pattern analysis to nurses’ EHR navigation and documentation. As preliminary work, it set the stage for later, fuller studies of EHR workflow using computational ethnography; detailed findings are reported in the lab’s subsequent publications.

Key themes

1

Patterns in practice

Sequencing reveals how nurses actually use the electronic health record.

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Groundwork for design

An early precursor to later computational ethnography, aimed at improving the record.