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Incorporating Health Preferences of Older Adults into the Electronic Medical Record

Researchers

Amar Das
Investigator
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Informatics) and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine
Mary Goldstein
Project Mentor

The development and evaluation of new software called e-Preference has been designed to integrate health decision aids for older adults into electronic medical records when faced with complex healthcare decisions. In this study, participants were given a hypothetical scenario that they had been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. They were then asked to access their personal health information through the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) online with a link to information on atrial fibrillation and a treatment using warfarin with an option to activate the e-Preference health decision aid. In the first year of the project, investigators completed development of the software. In the second year of the project, investigators implemented and tested the e-Preference system at PAMF, evaluating usability of the system, and performed system modifications based on patient/physician feedback in the final phase. As a result, investigators have determined a feasible approach to deliver this technology through an existing electronic health records system and its Web portal.

This study is a seed project for the Center on Advancing Decision Making for Aging.

Contact

Nomita Divi