Medical Xpress September 23, 2025
A recent study tested whether a referral order inside the Epic electronic health record (EHR) could help primary care clinicians refer patients to community-based diabetes prevention programs (DPPs), an important public health strategy to reduce incident type 2 diabetes, and whether patients enrolled after referral.
A large health system in Michigan developed and implemented an order in their Epic EHR that allowed clinicians to refer patients to community-based DPPs offered by the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, which then reached out to patients about nearby DPP classes.
The researchers then reviewed 13 months of real-world use, looking at how many eligible patients were referred and enrolled, how many clinics and clinicians used the order, whether referrals met eligibility criteria, and...
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