Association between evidence-based training and clinician proficiency in electronic health record use

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to determine if association exists between evidence-based provider training and clinician proficiency in electronic health record (EHR) use and if so, which EHR use metrics and vendor-defined indices exhibited association. Materials and Methods: We studied ambulatory clinicians' EHR use data published in the Epic Systems Signal report to assess proficiency between training participants (n = 133) and nonparticipants (n = 14). Data were collected in May 2019 and November 2019 on nonsurgeon clinicians from 6 primary care, 7 urgent care, and 27 specialty care clinics. EHR use training occurred from August 5 to August 15, 2019, prior to EHR upgrade and organizational instance alignment. Analytics performed were descriptive statistics, paired t-tests, multivariate correlations, and hierarchal multiple regression. Results: For number of appointments per 30-day reporting period, trained clinicians sustained an average increase of 16 appointments (P