Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC)

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Medication Errors
• Interventions: Device: Electronic Health Record

• Registration Number: NCT00225563
• Lead Sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Brief Summary

The Taconic IPA, a 2,500 physician independent practice association (IPA) located in Fishkill, New York (NY), is involved in an information technology project to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare in the region. Over the past three years, the organization has worked with area hospitals and laboratories to create a community wide electronic data exchange. Currently, the Taconic IPA is in the midst of implementing a full electronic health record in some practices and e-prescribing in other practices. The purpose is to study the impact of an electronic health record on safety and quality measures.

Detailed Description

We propose to measure differences in patient safety and quality measures among three groups: the control group consisting of physicians with paper-based office practices, a group of physicians using the clinical messaging system and electronic prescribing, and a group of physicians using the EMR and electronic prescribing.

We plan to introduce a vendor based electronic prescribing system by July 2005. This system will be offered to all physicians using clinical messaging and will be integrated with the EMR system. The system will have clinical decision support, such as checks for drug-drug interactions.

Our evaluation will measure differences in rates of medication errors and quality measures amongst these three groups. We will use a study design of a pre-post evaluation with a comparison control group. We will detect medical errors by prescription and chart review. We will determine compliance with quality measures through a combination of electronic data and chart review.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2005-09-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2005-09-22
• Study First Posted: 2005-09-26
• Study Start: 2007-07-21
• Primary Completion: 2012-05-25
• Study Completion: 2014-05
• Status Verified: 2018-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-11-22
• Last Update Posted: 2019-11-25

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• Physicians' prescriptions and medical records in office practices enrolled in the study

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Exclusion Criteria

• Other physicians not enrolled in the study

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: FACTORIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
e-prescribing	Electronic Health Record	Providers who used electronic prescriptions. electronic health records were used as opposed to paper based prescriptions

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Medication errors	2007-2012
Adverse drug events	2007-2012
Near misses	2007-2012
Quality measures	2007-2012

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Taconic IPA; 🇺🇸 Fishkill, New York, United States