Secondary use of electronic health record data: spontaneous triggered adverse drug event reporting

Physicians in the United States report fewer than 1% of adverse drug events (ADEs) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but frequently document ADEs within electronic health records (EHRs). We developed and implemented a generalizable, scalable EHR-based system to automatically send electronic ADE reports to the FDA in real-time.Proof-of-concept study involving 26 clinicians given access to EHR-based ADE reporting functionality from...