Integrating information on substance use disorders into electronic health record systems
- 作者：Betty Tai ; Ph.D.a ; btai@nida.nih.gov ; A. Thomas McLellan ; Ph.D.b
- 关键词：Substance abuse ; Health information ; Electronic health record system ; Patient confidentiality ; Patient safety
- 刊名：Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：174_07405472
- 类别：med
- 出版时间：July, 2012
- 卷：43
- 期：1
- 页码：12-19
- 文件大小：361 K
摘要
For reasons of safety and effectiveness, many forces in health care, especially the Affordable Care Act of 2010, are pressing for improved identification and management of substance use disorders within mainstream health care. Thus, standard information about patient substance use will have to be collected and used by providers within electronic health record systems (EHRS). Although there are many important technical, legal, and patient confidentiality issues that must be dealt with to achieve integration, this article focuses upon efforts by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and other federal agencies to develop a common set of core questions to screen, diagnose, and initiate treatment for substance use disorders as part of national EHRS. This article discusses the background and rationale for these efforts and presents the work to date to identify the questions and to promote information sharing among health care providers.