Challenges in communication from referring clinicians to pathologists in the electronic health record era.

Barbieri AL, Fadare O, Fan L, Singh H, Parkash V. J Pathol Inform. 2018;9:8.

This secondary data analysis of electronic health record (EHR) messages addressed to pathologists uncovered gaps in clinician-to-clinician communication. A range of clinicians used the EHR to ask clinical questions of pathologists, and pathologists largely did not use the EHR message inbox. The authors suggest that design and implementation of electronic tools should anticipate and address these potential safety problems.

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