Table 1.

Summary of Outcomes Assessed During System Design, Implementation, and Six Months Postimplementation

SYSTEM FUNCTION	OUTCOMES
Collecting electronic PROs in clinical care	Two practices adopted and using system. Automated identification of patients who qualified to complete assessments reduced concerns about workflow disruption. Patients typically completed questionnaires in less than 10 minutes. Eighty-four percent of patients said they would be comfortable reporting outcomes using a tablet computer. Patients completed 309 total PRO assessments.
Integrating PRO data with other clinical data not reported by the patient	PRO results consistently loaded into the EHR after patients reported them. PROs results are a standard part of regular data loads from clinical information systems to the research information systems (i.e., IDR).
Disseminating data to researchers	Two research studies actively acquiring PRO data via i2b2 and data request process. Average of 9.5 i2b2 queries per month involving PRO data. Average of 519 i2b2 queries per month involving any clinical data.