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“Computer” popups developed at Yale are improving medical care for patients. Results from a new story show that pop-up alerts embedded into the electronic health records of certain heart failure patients allowed physicians to prescribe more guideline directed medications.

There are numerous risk factors that can eventually lead to heart failure.

Physicians treating patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) were more likely to prescribe an added drug class, out of the four guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) classes, when they were prompted by an alert in a patient's electronic health record (EHR).

A personalized alert triggered via the electronic health record during office visits resulted in more frequent prescription of guideline-directed medical therapies for patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction.

Data from PROMPT-HF show clinicians are more likely to add 1 of 4 topline drug classes to a patient's HFrEF regimen when alerted on the opportunity.

The simple, personalized alerts embedded in EHRs led to increases in the number of GDMT classes prescribed.

Alert-based intervention in PROMPT-HF trial said to be low-cost, scalable.

More patients receive the right medication when physicians receive health record system alerts.

Data from the PROMPT-HF trial suggests active alert prompts integrated into the Epic EHR system at Yale New Haven Health contributed to increases in rate of prescription of GDMT for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.