Reimagining Specialty Consultation in the Digital Age: The Potential Role of Targeted Automatic Electronic Consultations

This Viewpoint offers a strategy to reduce costs and time of specialty consultations and improvements on curbside and electronic health record (EHR)–generated alerts through a targeted automatic electronic consultation process, through which alerts for patients who meet defined criteria are sent to...

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Veröffentlicht in:	JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2019-08, Vol.322 (5), p.399-400
Hauptverfasser:	Wachter, Robert M, Judson, Timothy J, Mourad, Michelle
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Consultation Digital Age Electronic health records Electronic medical records Specialists Telemedicine
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Zusammenfassung:	This Viewpoint offers a strategy to reduce costs and time of specialty consultations and improvements on curbside and electronic health record (EHR)–generated alerts through a targeted automatic electronic consultation process, through which alerts for patients who meet defined criteria are sent to specialists who review the information and decide whether the alert warrants a consultation.
ISSN:	0098-7484 1538-3598
DOI:	10.1001/jama.2019.6607