Benefits of HIE use for laboratory medicinea | Mean (s.d.) |
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Benefits of LRV consultation (n = 524) | |
• It is quicker for me to access the viewer to consult patients’ previous lab test results than wait to receive their paper medical record | 4.2 (1.1) |
• My patients’ lab test results are easier to consult in the viewer than in the paper medical record | 4.1 (0.9) |
• The viewer provides most of the lab test results that I need to care for patients referred to me | 4.0 (1.1) |
• As compared with the paper medical record, the follow-up of admitted patients’ lab test results when changing the patient surveillance team is made easier with the viewer | 3.8 (1.2) |
• As most of my patients reside in the region, I have little use for the QHRb because the viewer provides me with most of the lab test results that I need | 2.7 (1.4) |
• The viewer is very useful in allowing me to access test results produced by the public laboratories in my region | 2.6 (1.6) |
Benefits of iEHR consultation (n = 451) | |
Accessing the laboratory test results provided by the QHR | |
• improves the continuity of my patients’ care | 4.2 (0.8) |
• provides me with results that I cannot obtain from my usual information sources (e.g. lab results viewer) | 4.1 (0.8) |
• allows me to make better clinical decisions | 4.0 (0.8) |
• improves the way in which I evaluate patients | 3.8 (0.9) |
• has reduced the duplication of the lab tests prescribed to my patients | 3.8 (1.0) |
• prevents me from missing an important result; | 3.7 (1.0) |
• increases the safety of my patients’ care; | 3.7 (0.9) |
• allows me to intervene more rapidly and effectively with my patients; | 3.6 (0.9) |
• provides me with an overall view of my patients’ lab results (patients’ test history) | 3.6 (1.0) |
• allows me to ask for more advanced lab analyses whose results may be useful to other clinicians | 3.6 (1.0) |
• provides support to my clinical research or my performance measurement activities | 1.6 (1.0) |