Patient Education for Consumer-Mediated HIE

This study was conducted as a pilot two-arm randomized controlled trial. In the intervention arm, 27 veterans were taught how to generate a Continuity of Care Document (CCD) within the Blue Button feature of their VA patient portal and were then asked to share it with their community non-VA provider. In the attention control condition, 25 Veterans were taught how to look up health information on the Internet. The impact of this training on the next non-VA medical visit was examined. Results: Nineteen (90%) veterans in the intervention arm shared their CCD with their non-VA provider as compared with 2 (17%) in the attention control arm (p
Source: Applied Clinical Informatics - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research