Cancer Patients' Answers To Surveys: Incorporation Into The Electronic Health Record (Ehr) Can Decrease Manual Data Entry And Increase Patient-Centered Information.

130Background: Delivery of value-based cancer care has centered on the use of EHR’s and how these applications can document health information, including patient reported outcomes (PRO’s), (1-4). Survey information must be incorporated into the medical record with minimal staff intervention. Our institution, and many cancer centers are currently using “EPIC” as their EHR platform. Although this is a data driven platform, and data can be extracted and reported as desired, certain things need to be done prior to going live in order to ensure this occurs. Surveys must be built using standardized “smart data elements” (SDE’s). If patient data is gathered, but not integrated correctly into the EHR, one will find themselves manually entering data. The goal is to allow patients to answer questions about their health history 1 time, validate answers, incorporate into the EHR, and report data. Methods: We engaged our technology team prior to “go-live” to build patient survey questionnaires. 40 survey questions, we...