Learning Tasks of Pediatric Providers from Electronic Health Record Audit Logs

The amount of time spent working in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) has become a burden for many providers. We propose computational methods to learn EHR tasks of Pediatrics residents and attending physicians in the treatment of healthy newborns by analyzing EHR audit log data. We perform statistical analyses of the association between EHR events and provider role, leverage word embedding, k-means, and ProM process mining software on audit log data to learn EHR tasks and visualize them. Residents more commonly perform note preparation and result viewing relative to attendings. Attendings perform more communication and chart review. Task workflows analysis resulted in 2 tasks for attendings and 3 tasks for residents. The attending tasks focus on chart review patient report and history, and inbox service. Primary themes for residents are admit/discharge with order creation, note review, and result review.