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Improving Patients' Understanding Of Their Electronic Medical Record Data In Order To Improve Self-Management - A Quality Improvement Project, Erin Amelia Roth
Improving Patients' Understanding Of Their Electronic Medical Record Data In Order To Improve Self-Management - A Quality Improvement Project, Erin Amelia Roth
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Background: Patients are increasingly given access to their electronic medical records (EMRs) to help them keep track of their care, but many may have a difficult time understanding what is in them. Programs such as NoteAid assist in translating medical records and may increase the number of patients who actively use their EMRs, a development which may improve the management of chronic diseases.
Purpose: To work on a translation system developed by the University of Massachusetts Informatics group to make outpatient records more understandable for adult patients with chronic disease by using and testing a machine-learning database (NoteAid). Patients’ self-management …