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www.ahrq.gov/topics/electronic-health-records-ehrs.html
Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
AHRQ's digital healthcare research program explores topics … EHR Format: Frequently Asked Questions
Create Accurate Reports from Electronic Health Records (EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/survey-codebook-ehr.html
March 01, 2021 - EvidenceNOW: Practice Survey Codebook, EHRs
Oregon Cooperative
Resource: Practice Survey … This code book was used by the national evaluators for questions related to electronic health records (EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/research-results/results/infographics/ehr-text.html
April 01, 2019 - Nearly all participating practices used EHRs, and a large number of EHR vendors were represented within … Use of EHRs Before EvidenceNOW
Before EvidenceNOW:
93 percent of primary care practices used EHRs … What Could Practices Do with Their EHRs Before EvidenceNOW? … In relation to use of EHRs for heart health:
42 percent produced quality measure reports on aspirin … Did EvidenceNOW Practices Use EHRs to share Data and Monitor Quality?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-27-ehr-and-pcmh.pdf
January 15, 2025 - • How can EHRs support the key elements of PCMH?
• How can EHRs support quality improvement? … Enhancing reporting from EHRs. … (National Learning Consortium, 2013)
Using EHRs in Quality Improvement
EHRs are an essential tool … A Note About Small Practices and EHRs
When you are working with small practices and EHRs, be aware … Benefits of EHRs. March 2014.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/zhou-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Encoding and Processing Patient Allergy Information in EHRs
AHRQ Grant Final … Progress Report
Title of Project:
Encoding and Processing Patient Allergy Information in EHRs
Principal … needed to represent and
standardize food adverse sensitivity concepts, to improve documentation in EHRs … Drug allergy data were obtained from
EHRs of patients who visited two large tertiary care hospitals … Contrast allergy records in EHRs are diverse and commonly low quality.
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight10.html
August 01, 2014 - Investigating a model format for pediatric electronic health records (EHRs). … Incorporating the Format requirements into current EHRs was challenging. … coaches in North Carolina chose to focus on training practices to improve their use of EHRs. … For instance, they learned more about the capabilities of their EHRs. … The Format has been compared with 10 EHRs.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight10.pdf
September 08, 2015 - )
• Practices and health systems discovered that their EHRs did not meet many
Format requirements, … • Incorporating the Format requirements into current EHRs was challenging. … coaches in North Carolina chose to focus on training
practices to improve their use of EHRs … For
instance, they learned more about the
capabilities of their EHRs. … The
Format has been compared with 10
EHRs.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-26-ehr-and-mu.pdf
September 01, 2015 - What workflows are typically impacted by EHRs?
4. … Examples of some basic elements of EHRs are provided below. … Stage 1 focuses on
transferring data to EHRs and being able to share information. … Understanding EHRs: Common Features and Strategic
Approaches for Medicaid/SCHIP. … A Brief Overview of EHRs
An Introduction to EHRs
Some Basic Functions and Elements of EHRs
Get to
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/kmetik-otoole-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Although all practices have EHRs in use, they vary in the specific EHRs
product being used. … Experience with their EHRs varies across the five sites
from 4 years to over 10 years. … An interface
template was developed for each practice's EHRs, which contained the unique set of data … For example, none of the
EHRs included RxNorm coding for medications; some sites used NDC codes, but … EHRs.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/AHRQgraphic_EHRdata_phase.pdf
December 01, 2018 - AHRQgraphic_EHRdata_phase1_update
What Could Practices Do with Their EHRs before EvidenceNOW? … Use of EHRs before EvidenceNOW
79% 71% 72%
incorporated
lab results to
generate reports
reported … Nearly all participating practices used EHRs, and a large
number of EHR vendors were represented within … unique EHR systems
across EvidenceNOW
(32 for one regional
cooperative)68
93%
82%
used EHRs
had … resource(s)
34%
had no
capacity
19%
had
in-practice
capacity
25%
Did EvidenceNOW Practices Use EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/finalsummary/finalsummary5.html
September 01, 2015 - Key strategies included using combinations of EHRs, personal health record (PHRs), and health information … yielded the following insights:
Developing effective communication pathways between practices’ EHRs … When these challenges can be overcome, SBHCs find it easier to collect and report data from their EHRs … facilitators can help child-serving practices and health systems maximize the functionality of their EHRs … electronic registry was limited because many providers experienced difficulty in connecting their EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/quality-improvement.html
Opportunities in Home Health Quality Improvement
Create Accurate Reports from Electronic Health Records (EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/ecareplan/about/index.html
August 01, 2024 - patients and caregivers) to see and share critical health data from multiple electronic health records (EHRs … However, currently, many EHRs are not interoperable and do not permit the movement of data across care … and one for patients/caregivers) that does just that: collects and shares clinical data from multiple EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-pennsylvania-state-snapshot.pdf
January 01, 2018 - in order for measures to be calculated, and (2)
programing EHRs to generate quality measures. … Compared with their counterparts, health systems using
EHRs with advanced reporting capabilities were … Health systems indicated that changing their
EHRs was a slow, difficult process. … Health systems indicated that programming
their EHRs to calculate measures was resource-intensive and … • Continue improving their EHRs to serve children better.
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-ehr-impact2.html
July 01, 2024 - EHRs enhance patient safety both directly and indirectly by improving data documentation, ensuring data … patient outcomes, enhanced patient safety, and reduced costs has only been partially realized as current EHRs … care team members. 10-13 In the digital era, accurate and comprehensive diagnosis documentation within EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/healthitwebinar/sops-hit-webcast3-gandhi.pdf
January 01, 2018 - prescribing
– Handoff tools
– Test result management systems
– Referral management systems
Use of EHRs … 40%
45%
50%
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Basic or Comprehensive
EHR
Incentives start
Use of EHRs … Improve Safety
Main Strategies for Preventing Errors and AEs Using IT
Optimize the Use of HIT
Use of EHRs … in Ambulatory Care
Use of EHRs Among U.S.
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/ehr-reports.html
November 01, 2018 - Create Accurate Reports from Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
Resource: Producing Accurate Clinical … different types of QI reports and different ways of generating them from electronic health records (EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/vt-spotlight.pdf
July 01, 2015 - stores health
information that is either uploaded directly from providers’
electronic health records (EHRs … The electronic registry was most useful for practices
without EHRs. … entering information into the registry
was also duplicative of information that resided in their
EHRs … Moreover, by the end of the demonstration, many
practices had used their own resources to implement
EHRs … electronic registry was limited because many
providers experienced difficulty in connecting their
EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/vt-spotlight.html
July 01, 2015 - stores health information that is either uploaded directly from providers’ electronic health records (EHRs … The electronic registry was most useful for practices without EHRs. … Most practices with EHRs indicated that their systems were not only incompatible with the State’s registry … that entering information into the registry was also duplicative of information that resided in their EHRs … Moreover, by the end of the demonstration, many practices had used their own resources to implement EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-ehr-impact6.html
July 01, 2024 - Comprehensive EHRs provide a rich dataset for future research, enabling studies that can uncover patterns … Through continued innovation and collaboration, the future of diagnosis documentation in EHRs will reflect