About the Authors

Andrew W Steele

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: asteele@dhha.org

Affiliation Information Services, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Sheri Eisert

Affiliation Health Services Research, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Joel Witter

Affiliation General Internal Medicine, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Pat Lyons

Affiliation Software Division, Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael A Jones

address: University of Colorado Hospital, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Affiliation Thomson Micromedex, Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States of America

Patricia Gabow

Affiliation Medicine, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Eduardo Ortiz

Affiliation Medicine, Washington D.C. VA Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Competing Interests

AWS, SE, JW, PG, and EO have no competing interests. PL is an employee of Siemens Medical Solutions. MAJ was employed by Thomson Micromedix during the time of the study.

Author Contributions

AWS, SE, JW, PL, MAJ, PG, and EO designed the study. AWS analyzed the data. AWS, JW, SE, PL, MAJ, PG, and EO contributed to writing the paper.