Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions (05/17/22) Wiljer, David; Williams, Spencer; Charow, Rebecca; et al.

A document review investigated systemic influences of physician data usage for performance improvement in continuing professional development. Researchers collected 62 organizational and institutional documents from 20 Canadian and U.S. organizations. They identified an existing need to promote data-informed self-assessment and team-based learning; the intersection and acknowledgment of privacy and confidentiality issues at the point of patient data collection and physician-generated outcomes; and provision of a subtle data strategy plan for each healthcare specialty. "This analysis broadens our understanding of system-level factors that influence the extent to which health information custodians and physicians are motivated to engage with data for learning," the authors concluded.

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