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Assessing Digital Maturity of Hospitals: Viewpoint Comparing National Approaches in Five Countries

Assessing Digital Maturity of Hospitals: Viewpoint Comparing National Approaches in Five Countries

EHR coverage in hospitals was hard to assess, but between 50% and 100% of hospitals used some sort of clinical information system (ie, systems designed to support the operations of specific clinical departments or functions within an organization). Norway, Scotland, and the Netherlands had 100% coverage. Types of EHR systems varied significantly.

Kathrin Cresswell, Franziska Jahn, Line Silsand, Leanna Woods, Tim Postema, Marion Logan, Sevala Malkic, Elske Ammenwerth

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e57858

Insights and Trends in Open Note Access: Retrospective Observational Study

Insights and Trends in Open Note Access: Retrospective Observational Study

As of 2021, a total of 78% of office-based physicians and 96% of nonfederal acute care hospitals have implemented a certified electronic health record (EHR) into practice [1], which affords the ability to document these notes digitally.

Randeep Singh Badwal, Paul Cavo, Mandip Panesar

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e55982

Digital Contact Tracing Implementation Among Leaders and Health Care Workers in a Pediatric Hospital During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Interview Study

Digital Contact Tracing Implementation Among Leaders and Health Care Workers in a Pediatric Hospital During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Interview Study

Early findings suggest that DCT, through facilitating comprehensive management of COVID-19 cases, enhances hospitals’ capacity to maintain safety, mitigate infection risk, and sustain operations during the pandemic [18-23]. To date, various technologies (eg, closed-circuit television, real-time locating systems, Wi-Fi access point logs, Bluetooth-based systems, electronic medical record [EMR] systems, and web applications) have been used to augment DCT [9,10,18-26].

Brynn O'Dwyer, Mirou Jaana, Charles Hui, Samia Chreim, Jennifer Ellis

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2024;10:e64270

Health Care Worker Usage of Large-Scale Health Information Exchanges in Japan: User-Level Audit Log Analysis Study

Health Care Worker Usage of Large-Scale Health Information Exchanges in Japan: User-Level Audit Log Analysis Study

The distribution of man-days for monthly HIE use by hospitals is shown in Table 3. Table 4 shows the analysis results for facility types other than hospitals. The number of institutions connected to the HIEs included in the analysis for each month in FY2021/22 is shown in Table S3 in Multimedia Appendix 1. Distribution of man-days for monthly HIEa use for hospitals. a HIE: health information exchange.

Jun Suzumoto, Yukiko Mori, Tomohiro Kuroda

JMIR Med Inform 2024;12:e56263

Lyme Disease Under-Ascertainment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: Retrospective Study

Lyme Disease Under-Ascertainment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: Retrospective Study

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many outpatient medical offices switched to telehealth platforms to protect patients and staff, and hospitals became overwhelmed with increased numbers of patients. People in densely populated areas may have avoided medical centers to decrease their risk of exposure to COVID-19, and by not receiving medical care, a diagnosis for Lyme disease may have been missed. Globally, there was wider adoption of telehealth as a consequence of the pandemic [22].

Brie S Jones, Michael E DeWitt, Jennifer J Wenner, John W Sanders

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2024;10:e56571

A Bayesian System to Detect and Track Outbreaks of Influenza-Like Illnesses Including Novel Diseases: Algorithm Development and Validation

A Bayesian System to Detect and Track Outbreaks of Influenza-Like Illnesses Including Novel Diseases: Algorithm Development and Validation

The ideal surveillance system will notice an outbreak after just a few cases that may be distributed across several shifts at multiple hospitals. An individual physician may see just 1 or 2 cases, which might seem inconsequential to them and not worthy of mention, but an automated surveillance system, such as we describe here, can gain statistical power and timeliness by aggregating data across an entire region.

John M Aronis, Ye Ye, Jessi Espino, Harry Hochheiser, Marian G Michaels, Gregory F Cooper

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2024;10:e57349

Digital Maturity as a Predictor of Quality and Safety Outcomes in US Hospitals: Cross-Sectional Observational Study

Digital Maturity as a Predictor of Quality and Safety Outcomes in US Hospitals: Cross-Sectional Observational Study

Since the pandemic, quality and safety outcomes in US hospitals have reportedly declined, despite advances in digital transformation [17,18]. Since 2019, quality and safety outcomes for US hospitals have resulted in lower Leapfrog Group's Hospital Safety Grades (2023) [19]. Significant workforce shortages are common [20], which have further challenged hospitals to deliver quality and safe care.

Anne Snowdon, Abdulkadir Hussein, Melissa Danforth, Alexandra Wright, Reid Oakes

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e56316

Complex Hospital-Based Electronic Prescribing–Based Intervention to Support Antimicrobial Stewardship: Qualitative Study

Complex Hospital-Based Electronic Prescribing–Based Intervention to Support Antimicrobial Stewardship: Qualitative Study

Many AMS programs have targeted hospitals, as these are known to have high rates of inappropriate use of antibiotics [7]. Complex interventions with multifaceted, interconnected educational, behavioral, and technological components have the potential to enhance AMS [8]. Here, evidence suggests that behavioral change AMS interventions may encourage good AMS practice and adherence to guidelines by health professionals.

Kathrin Cresswell, Susan Hinder, Aziz Sheikh, Neil Watson, David Price, Andrew Heed, Sarah Katie Pontefract, Jamie Coleman, Jillian Beggs, Antony Chuter, Ann Slee, Robin Williams

JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e54458

The Paradoxes of Digital Tools in Hospitals: Qualitative Interview Study

The Paradoxes of Digital Tools in Hospitals: Qualitative Interview Study

The burden placed upon health care professionals (HCPs) in hospitals by the complexities of digital environments is a recognized and well-reported challenge of our time [1,2].

Marie Wosny, Livia Maria Strasser, Janna Hastings

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e56095