Implementation of a Novel User Interface for Review of Clinical Microbiology Results

Abstract

Compared to other laboratory data, microbiology data are a complex mix of quantitative and qualitative results that return iteratively over time. Commercial electronic health records (EHR) frequently have limitations in the manner in which they manage microbiology data, not attempting to codify data but rather displaying it as text. This contributes to time-consuming and error-prone clinical workflows. We developed a microbiology viewer application to aggregate results and implemented it in our EHR.