A Diabetes Dashboard and Physician Efficiency and Accuracy in Accessing Data Needed for High-Quality Diabetes Care.

The article presents a study which compares the accuracy of diabetes dashboard screen and conventional approach in accessing multiple electronic health record (EHR) for high-quality diabetes care. The time, accuracy, and number of mouse clicks were measured while 10 primary care physicians searched their EHR using dashboard and conventional approach. Results show that dashboard screen is the most accurate because 100% of the data requested was identified correctly with 3 clicks in the mouse.