EMR log analysis as an optimization tool on the nursing work loads

Abstract

Although the EMR is designed in terms of patient records, EMR access logs contains various valuable information in themselves. The time-series analysis is suitable for optimization not only of EMR terminal devices arrangement and allocation, but also of medical staff's work loads in hospitals. Clearly visualized much lower device occupancy rate than other units in the hospital might easier reallocation against non-evidence based objection. The analysis with a workers axis might reveal their overloads at the specific situation in everyday tasks series. The performance comparison among staffs is likely to be drawn hospital managers attention in terms of a personal evaluation. Because the workloads index from access logs is completely different from the individual performance ratio, the result of analysis has just to be restricted to reduce and to optimize the total workloads balance in the hospital.