Medscape September 25, 2025
Primary care clinicians may get more details about their patients’ health risks if electronic health records (EHRs) prompt patients to log details before a visit, according to new findings published in Annals of Family Medicine.
The approach not only increased the amount of family history documented for those who received prompts before an appointment but also led to more genetic testing and screening orders.
Clinicians often do not have have time to ask for family history due to competing priorities in the limited window of an office visit, said June C. Carroll, MD, lead author of the study and professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario,...
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