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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/registries-pros-cons.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Disadvantages of Registries
Advantages and Disadvantages of Registries
Electronic health records (EHRs … registries can help ensure that evidence-
based care is delivered to all patients and can be an adjunct to EHRs … Provides outreach information at fingertips
• Improves team-based care
• Smaller software package than EHRs
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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/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/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.
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/care/coordination/atlas/chapter4.html
June 01, 2014 - use” of certified EHR technology, including use for quality measurement. a Given the potential for EHRs … EHRs contain a trove of clinical data, including information on physician orders, laboratory and imaging … EHRs aim (ideally) to aggregate information for each patient from multiple providers, settings, payers … when used for quality measurement.. a , c Furthermore, many EHRs in use today require significant … Without interoperability, EHRs cannot integrate into their record information about care received from
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-alaska-state-snapshot.pdf
January 01, 2018 - Alaska helped practices to use their EHRs
to improve population management
Alaska initially planned … of health
information technology by helping practices to: (1) use their
electronic health records (EHRs … The State—
• Built practices’ capacity to use EHRs to monitor and
improve quality of care. … Two practices, for example, used
their EHRs to develop registries of children with special
health care … Two
practices built developmental screening templates into
their EHRs.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/mui/ui-ehr-materials.docx
June 02, 2025 - Urinary Incontinence EHR Materials
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Urinary Incontinence EHR Materials
WI-INTUIT Team – University of Wisconsin
Resource Description: This document contains options for note text and after visit summary language to be included in your EHR.
This project was funded under grant n…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/mui/ui-referral-list.docx
June 02, 2025 - Urinary Incontinence EHR Materials
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Urinary Incontinence EHR Materials
WI-INTUIT Team – University of Wisconsin
Resource Description: This is a guide the WI-INTUIT created for primary care practices to identify local pelvic floor physical therapists, urologists, and urogynecologists …
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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/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/mestateataglance.pdf
March 01, 2012 - periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment
(EPSDT) data into pediatric electronic health records (EHRs … support for pediatric‐specific learning sessions, automating Bright Futures in pediatric
practices’ EHRs … PCMH pediatric
practices have volunteered to (1) track selected measures, (2) pilot Bright Futures in EHRs … How did Maine integrate data on EPSDT services into pediatric EHRs?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/pastateataglance.pdf
March 01, 2012 - The focus is on gathering core measure data
directly from the health systems’ EHRs and reporting measures … collaborate with their EHR vendors to implement and
test the model format and determine the extent to which EHRs … staff will develop and test other electronic quality improvement
projects based on format‐compliant EHRs … , implement the patient referral/linkage system into EHRs, and
link practice sites to the State’s Department
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/morrison-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Though some practices had a 100% on-time return of the forms, other
EHRs had a 33% return rate. … goal of the project is to ensure that critical patient information is synchronized among a variety of
EHRs … synchronization of patient data including problems,
allergies, and medications among a variety of EHRs … ASTM Continuity of Care Record (CCR) standard to:
Extract/capture and input data to/from local EHRs … Securely distribute data between EHRs
Organize data in a structured way that maintains context
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/finalsummary/finalsummary2.html
September 01, 2015 - health systems have not yet developed the infrastructure needed to support data transfer from providers’ EHRs … Furthermore, incomplete or inconsistent documentation in EHRs and paper charts means that practices first … availability of administrative data on behavioral health services and clinical data from practices’ EHRs … response, State-hired practice facilitators helped practices run supplemental reports directly from their EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/methods/index.html
March 01, 2021 - Cooperatives and practices used EHRs to extract ABCS clinical quality measures data to answer the initiative … Regional EvidenceNOW cooperatives also supported practices to improve how providers input data into their EHRs … developed resources for practice facilitators to support practice-based models of generating reports using EHRs … Because of the challenges in generating trustworthy and credible reports from EHRs, some cooperatives
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/focus-diagnostic-safety.html
March 01, 2023 - Other projects explore the challenges and opportunities that electronic health records (EHRs) present … These efforts aim to leverage the vast amounts of data stored in EHRs, and the potential to improve the … display of the information in EHRs, to facilitate diagnosis.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/medication-mgmt-sample-process.pdf
June 02, 2025 - patient engagement and to accommodate primary care
practices that do not use electronic health records (EHRs … If your practice uses EHRs, ensure that the medication list in the record is updated
appropriately. … If your practice does not use EHRs, note any corrections or changes on the paper Medication
List form … If your practice uses EHRs, provide the patient with a printout of the complete and accurate
medication … If your practice does not use EHRs, provide the patient with a paper copy of the medication
list only
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/index.html
March 01, 2024 - Primary care practices are incredibly creative, dedicated, and resilient, even with problematic EHRs … EHRs often do not provide primary care practices with access to the data they need to improve care quality … provide timely feedback data to primary care practices to drive QI, given the limitations of current EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/pa.html
March 01, 2019 - core set of children's quality measures to report directly from patients' electronic health records (EHRs … All seven of Pennsylvania's participating health systems 1 are reporting from EHRs some or all of selected … report the measures, all of the CHIPRA grantee health systems examined the availability of data in their EHRs … their specific clinical goals and will focus on implementing those requirements into their existing EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/evidencenow-story.pdf
September 01, 2021 - Primary care practices are incredibly creative, dedicated,
and resilient, even with problematic EHRs … EHRs often do not provide primary care practices with access
to the data they need to improve care … provide timely feedback data to primary care
practices to drive QI, given the limitations of current EHRs