Negative Patient Descriptors: Documenting Racial Bias In The Electronic Health Record: Study examines racial bias in the patient descriptors used in the electronic …

M Sun, T Oliwa, ME Peek, EL Tung - Health Affairs, 2022 - healthaffairs.org
Little is known about how racism and bias may be communicated in the medical record. This
study used machine learning to analyze electronic health records (EHRs) from an urban …

Improving how clinicians communicate with patients: an integrative review and framework

TS Danaher, LL Berry, C Howard… - Journal of Service …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Effective communication is crucial in all service contexts, but especially in clinical
healthcare, given its high (sometimes life-or-death) stakes. Fine-tuned messaging and …

How to reduce stigma and bias in clinical communication: a narrative review

M Healy, A Richard, K Kidia - Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2022 - Springer
A growing body of literature demonstrates that healthcare providers use stigmatizing
language when speaking and writing about patients. In April 2021, the 21st Century Cures …

Examination of stigmatizing language in the electronic health record

G Himmelstein, D Bates, L Zhou - JAMA Network Open, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Stigmatizing language in the electronic health record (EHR) may alter treatment
plans, transmit biases between clinicians, and alienate patients. However, neither the …

[HTML][HTML] The 21st Century Cures Act and multiuser electronic health record access: potential pitfalls of information release

S Arvisais-Anhalt, M Lau, CU Lehmann… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - jmir.org
Although the Office of The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's (ONC)
Information Blocking Provision in the Cures Act Final Rule is an important step forward in …

[HTML][HTML] Presenting complaint: use of language that disempowers patients

C Cox, Z Fritz - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
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Patients, clinicians and open notes: information blocking as a case of epistemic injustice

C Blease, L Salmi, H Rexhepi, M Hägglund… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - jme.bmj.com
In many countries, including patients are legally entitled to request copies of their clinical
notes. However, this process remains time-consuming and burdensome, and it remains …

Deciphering clinical abbreviations with a privacy protecting machine learning system

A Rajkomar, E Loreaux, Y Liu, J Kemp, B Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Physicians write clinical notes with abbreviations and shorthand that are difficult to decipher.
Abbreviations can be clinical jargon (writing “HIT” for “heparin induced thrombocytopenia”) …

Patient empowerment through online access to health records

M Hägglund, B McMillan, R Whittaker, C Blease - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
Patient empowerment through online access to health records Page 1 PATIENT
EMPOWERMENT Patient empowerment through online access to health records Rapid …

Adapting to transparent medical records: international experience with “open notes”

C Blease, B McMillan, L Salmi, G Davidge, T Delbanco - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
• By 30 November 2022, patients in England who have signed up for an online service such
as the NHS App should have prospective access to their primary care health record enabled …