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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/prospectscare/prospects1.html
July 01, 2018 - Capabilities and Clinical Workflow Barriers
Panelists noted that clinicians generally are not using EHRs … Progress notes are a common example of unstructured data within EHRs. … One panelist commented that frequently EHRs are used as elaborate text editors rather than in ways that … No examples were provided about EHRs that support capturing documentation of coordination activities, … physicians—and that EHRs are designed to be customizable to match local workflow patterns.
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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/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/necessary-but-not-sufficient-hitech-act-white-paper.pdf
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The Concept of Meaningful Use of EHRs … PHRs are the patient counterpart to
EHRs, although EHRs are far more common right now and are receiving … In sum, comprehensive EHRs, and to a lesser extent basic EHRs, can support the medical
home in important … Thus, the question is how practices are currently implementing health IT, and
particularly EHRs, so … Finally, the comprehensive, team-based-care principle could be compromised if EHRs
codify workflows
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/prospectscare/prospsum.html
July 01, 2018 - discussions with a panel of informants with expertise in health IT systems development and use, HIEs, EHRs … (s)
Use Meaningful Use measure data elements in new measures of care coordination
Certified EHRs … Assess the accuracy of data automatically extracted from EHRs, for example by comparison with manual … Currently, the ability to link APCD data with outside data sources, such as EHRs, is possible in only … Linking EHRs to patient registries would offer a potentially rich data source for quality measurement
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/prospectscare/prospects1a.html
July 01, 2018 - Sources
Panelists noted that since few measures to date have relied on clinical data extracted from EHRs … is likely to impact many measures of care processes that rely on data automatically extracted from EHRs … of incomplete data should improve as HIEs mature and more data sources are linked (e.g., APCDs and EHRs … measure exclusions, as evidence suggests that current documentation structures and practices within EHRs … Yet another panelist characterized EHRs as "data sinks," rather than data repositories.
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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/ncepcr/tools/pf-handbook/mod17.html
March 01, 2022 - With the increasing implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) and the use of disease registries … Impact of EHRs on Workflow
As a facilitator, you will need to help your practices integrate their EHRs … You can also help your practices use their EHRs to identify patient education materials suitable for … For example, EHRs can be linked to libraries of easy-to-understand print and audiovisual materials. … practice will need to maintain registries, much as they would have to do if they did not have EHRs.
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/tools-toolkits.html
Implementation Toolkit
Create Accurate Reports from Electronic Health Records (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/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/news/newsroom/case-studies/cp31309.html
January 01, 2020 - e-prescribing, interoperability, and electronic exchange were the kinds of functions being added to EHRs … But many smaller practices have only recently looked into adopting EHRs because of the advent of federal … Interoperability, with automatic import and export between EHRs and the cHIE, is the ultimate goal.” … UHIN’s cHIE developed out of the reality that from 2004 to 2009, most medical practices did not have EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/news/jan25-funding-opportunity.html
September 01, 2020 - across different healthcare systems and technologies, including different electronic health records (EHRs … healthcare systems can effectively share and reuse standards-based CDS even where differences exist among 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
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight05.html
November 01, 2013 - Investigating a model format for pediatric electronic health records (EHRs). … responded positively to pay-for-improvement incentives
Pennsylvania financially rewards the use of EHRs … Commitment to EHRs as the quality infrastructure. … Regular and better use of EHRs is needed to make measure-driven QI activities the “normal way of doing … and rewards health systems that use EHRs accordingly.
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-dorr.html
December 01, 2022 - Key to the coordination is sharing information from electronic health records (EHRs), but most EHRs cannot … system (ICCIS) to determine whether it could be implemented in a diverse set of clinics using certified EHRs … Despite the near universal adoption of EHRs (which has resulted in an increased amount of clinical data
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/patient-safety-technology-resources.pdf
May 01, 2023 - liability insurance companies) improve reporting of unsafe conditions associated with health IT
and EHRs … can make a big difference in maximizing office efficiencies and improving
care coordination using EHRs … This list was created
by a panel of experts and focuses on leveraging the potential of EHRs to enhance … https://wire.ama-assn.org/practice-management/8-top-challenges-and-solutions-making-ehrs-usable
https … Eight Top Challenges and Solutions for Making EHRs Usable
V. General Resources
1.
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/final-report/section2.html
October 01, 2015 - charts) and developing workarounds with their EHRs. … These strategies included using various combinations of EHRs, personal health records (PHRs), and HIE … The diversity of EHRs used by practices and the amount of modifications needed to those EHRs further … Practice staff often needed training and TA to effectively use their EHRs. … Comparing the Children’s EHR Format with existing EHRs was challenging but valuable.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/healthitresourcelist.pdf
January 01, 2019 - liability insurance companies) improve reporting of unsafe conditions associated with health IT
and EHRs … stakeholders to develop best practices and recommendations for copying and pasting health
information in EHRs … Eight Top Challenges and Solutions for Making EHRs Usable
https://wire.ama-assn.org/practice-management … This list was created
by a panel of experts and focuses on leveraging the potential of EHRs to enhance … Primer: Electronic Health Records
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primers/primer/43/electronic-health-records
EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/prospectscare/prospects2.html
July 01, 2018 - The Meaningful Use measures will enable further care coordination measurement using data from EHRs to … However, linking APCD data with EHRs is currently only possible within the limited number of States that … Currently, the ability to link APCD data with outside data sources, such as EHRs, is possible in only … Given that there is currently no usual location where outside information is stored within EHRs, and … One panelist noted that linking EHRs to patient registries would offer another potentially rich data
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight05.pdf
September 08, 2015 - • Investigating a model format for pediatric
electronic health records (EHRs). … rewards participating health
systems for reporting any of the
Child Core Set measures from their
EHRs … • Commitment to EHRs as the quality
infrastructure. … The
Pennsylvania project sets its sights on
EHRs as the infrastructure for quality
measurement and … improvement and
rewards health systems that use EHRs
accordingly.