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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contemp Clin Trials. 2021 Aug 8;109:106533. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2021.106533

Table 2.

Summary of Informatics Implementations at Each Site

Site
Informatics Task Mass General Brigham Dartmouth Hitchcock Health
Patient idenfication, establish eligibility
EHR
  • Identify eligible patients using existing codified result fields (i.e. BIRADS, LRADS, cervical cytology)

  • Indicate eligible patients in EHR by adding mFOCUS-specific labels to patient record

Study Database
  • Query the EHR data warehouse daily to extract relevant reports (mammography, Pap smear, LDCT)

  • Run reports through organ-specific natural language processing (NLP) to identify abnormal results

  • Identify eligible patients using extracted data

  • Indicate eligible patients in the EHR using a study-specific health maintenance reminder and automated problem list entry added to patient charts via web services

Intervention Delivery
EHR
  • Workbenches generated using mFOCUS-specific health maintenance reminder and automated problem list entries

  • Send patient portal messages and generate letters via workbenches

  • Workbenches generated by searching for mFOCUS-specific labels in the patient record

  • Send patient portal messages and generate letters via workbenches

Tracking Intervention Delivery
EHR
  • Record dates, outcomes of calls in workbenches

  • Automated tracking of study outcomes (e.g. cancer diagnoses, completed follow-up tests)

Study Database
  • Record dates, outcomes of calls in sidecar

  • Automated tracking of study outcomes (e.g. cancer diagnoses, completed follow-up tests)

  • Copy of the tracking information from EHR is pushed to sidecar for study monitoring