{"id":20651,"date":"2025-09-10T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpower.maryland.edu\/?p=20651"},"modified":"2026-01-13T14:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:39:42","slug":"nih-award-funds-research-to-integrate-electronic-health-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpower.maryland.edu\/nih-award-funds-research-to-integrate-electronic-health-records\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH Award Funds Research to Integrate Electronic Health Records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Published on <a href=\"https:\/\/sph.umd.edu\/news\/nih-award-funds-research-integrate-electronic-health-records\">UMCP&#8217;s School of Public Health website<\/a><\/strong>   |    <strong>September 2, 2025 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-border-input-background-color has-background\"><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note: <\/strong>The University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing is a strategic initiative of the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: <em>MPowering the State<\/em>, combining computational expertise and biomedical research to create a premier learning health care system and improve patient care and outcomes in Maryland and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a common \u201cmedical\u201d complaint: You switch to a new doctor and find that electronic health records from your old clinic or from urgent care or specialist visits have not moved with you \u2013 leading to a\u00a0d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu\u00a0of filling out the same forms you\u2019ve filled out a hundred times before. But beyond the form frustration, what does it mean for your health when your providers aren\u2019t seeing your complete medical history? Now, thanks to a $1.4 million NIH grant, co-led by the <strong>University of Maryland School of Public Health<\/strong> (<strong>SPH<\/strong>), researchers are working to answer that question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a point of frustration for decades that digitized health records don\u2019t move with you when you go from doctor to doctor. There are lots of layers that introduce friction to the use of this outside data,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sph.umd.edu\/people\/nate-apathy\"><strong>Dr. Nate Apathy<\/strong><\/a>, a professor of health policy and management at UMD SPH. \u201cThere are still a lot of important outstanding questions about how the use of outside records changes doctors\u2019 decision-making, and furthermore, how those gaps in records could impact a patient\u2019s health.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apathy and Dr. A Jay Holmgren of University of California, San Francisco\u2019s Medical School, will examine how doctors make clinical decisions with the data at hand, how their decisions change when they see all the information including \u201coutside data\u201d and what impact that change ultimately has on a person\u2019s health. \u201cOutside data\u201d refers to any health records that originate from outside of a primary health provider&#8217;s institution (e.g., an urgent care facility or non-affiliated hospital).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rate at which doctors look at \u201coutside data\u201d to make clinical decisions is, in general, surprisingly low, Apathy adds. In an outpatient setting, on average\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jamia\/ocaa226\"><strong>less than 30%<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>look at outside data. For many doctors, it\u2019s more like\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jamia\/ocaa226\">5-10%<\/a>.<\/strong> That low usage is due to a variety of factors, including that the data may not be relevant to the patient\u2019s health concern, Apathy notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the next four years, researchers will examine data from two academic health systems: UCSF Health and the University of Maryland Medical System. The IT systems of both institutions were recently updated to seamlessly include \u201coutside data\u201d (as permitted by patients) in patient electronic health records, comparing if and how clinicians used this outside data for clinical decisions before and after the system upgrade.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using machine learning and AI tools, the researchers plan to create different patient \u201cphenotypes,\u201d which are profiles of observable traits like \u201cmale, over 50 years old with newly diagnosed hypertension who hasn\u2019t been seen in the last 6 months.\u201d These phenotypes will help flag relevant outside records for a given patient so doctors can proactively look at the relevant data for their decision making.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen health data travels seamlessly between institutions, there is immense promise to drive down health care costs and reduce health care use and duplicative paperwork, all of which can improve patient health and satisfaction,\u201d Apathy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe hope this research and the open-source tools we will create from it will contribute to improved decision-making and health outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This award is supported National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant: NIH\/NLM R01LM014770.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UM-IHC faculty member Nate Apathy recognized <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":20652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,11,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-in-the-press","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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