eGEMS Call for Papers: Improving User Interface to Improve Patient Outcomes

eGEMS Call for Papers: Improving User Interface to Improve Patient Outcomes

eGEMS Call for Papers: Improving  User Interface to Improve Patient Outcomes The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the  Electronic Data Methods Forum have issued a call for papers for a  special eGEMs(Generating Evidence & Methods to improve  patient outcomes) issue titled “Evidence into Action: Improving User  Interface to Improve Patient Outcomes.” Authors are encourage to  submit papers that examine conceptual models for development  of user-friendly HIT interfaces, innovative methods for usability testing,  and results of pilot or usability testing that demonstrate improved  process outcomes. eGEMs is an open access journal focused on  using electronic clinical data to advance research and quality  improvement, with the overall goal of improving patient and  community outcomes.  Deadline for manuscripts: September 10, 2014. For more information on how to submit a manuscript, select: http://repository.academyhealth.org/egems/vol3/iss2/. eGEMS Publishes 50th Paper in Issue  Focused on Health IT-Enabled  Community-Based Transformation eGEMs, an open access publication of the EDM Forum, has published  its 50th paper, which focuses on strategies to improve quality of care  in smaller healthcare facilities. Publishing since 2013, eGEMs facilitates  the rapid dissemination of lessons learned from using electronic health  data to advance research and quality improvement. With the overall  goal of improving patient and community outcomes, eGEMs papers  share important stories and strategies from the cutting edge of health  information technology. Select to access the current issue: http://repository.academyhealth.org/egems/vol2/iss3/.