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What is the impact of EDR on dentists' work?

A qualitative study of dentists' experience with Electronic Dental Records.

Although more and more dentists are electing to adopt Electronic Dental Records (EDR)their impact on dentists' work is not well understood. We are using qualitative methods to elucidate the impact of EDR on dentists' work. We will interview dentists and observe the dentists and their team using the EDR.

Type of project: academic

Involved Persons:
Project Leader:	Heather K. Hill (Oregon Health & Science University)
Other involved People:	Vandana Kapoor, Denice Stewart, Melissa Monner
Funding:
Is the project funded?	yes
Funding source:	National Library of Medicine
Other information:
Duration of project:	1 Year
Papers related to project:	TBD
DIOC user:
Heather Hill (9 ) Heather Hill's interests: clinical decision support, educational technology, evidence-based dentistry/electronic information resources, research methods

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Comments:

arden forrey (16 ), 01/29/2010:

I will just note that your location on Oregon complements the very recentestablishment of a Washington State Oral Health Coalition that has derinite regional interests in issues related to promoting EOHR uses in the Pacilfic Northwest. Collabortative work of UW Health Science Center and UW-SOD with OHSU as part of this DIOC Project would be very valuable to all participants.

Titus Schleyer (67 ), 01/12/2010:

Hi Heather,

this sounds like an interesting project. Can you provide some more detail? Are you going to look at particular activities within the dental care spectrum? What methods are you using to get your results? Are you considering also doing some quantitative analysis, such as time on different screens or utilization of software functions?

In a related comment, you may want to take a look at the statements about the impact of technology that Jeannie found in her masters project. (Irwin JY, Torres-Urquidy MH, Schleyer T, Monaco V. A preliminary model of work during initial examination and treatment planning appointments. British Dental Journal. 2009 Jan 10; 206(1):E1; discussion 24-5.)

Thx. + good luck with the project.

Titus

 

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