Using the Electronic Health Record to Facilitate Drug Allergy Delabeling

Area of Science:

• Clinical Informatics
• Allergy and Immunology
• Health Information Technology

Background:

• Allergy delabeling programs are expanding across various medical fields.
• Electronic Health Records (EHR) offer a powerful platform to support these initiatives.

Purpose of the Study:

• To review existing EHR tools utilized in allergy delabeling programs.
• To provide recommendations for implementing EHR-based delabeling workflows using clinical informatics best practices.

Main Methods:

• Literature review of studies describing EHR tools for allergy delabeling.
• Categorization of tools based on the allergy delabeling workflow steps.

Main Results:

• Several EHR tools facilitate key delabeling steps: patient identification, risk stratification, evaluation, outcome documentation, delabeling, and label reconciliation.
• Standardized EHR tools enhance delabeling success and stakeholder support.
• Collaboration with EHR vendors can improve tool availability and allergy documentation.

Conclusions:

• EHR tools are crucial for effective allergy delabeling.
• Standardization and vendor partnerships are key to optimizing EHR-based allergy delabeling workflows.