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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/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/registries-pros-cons.pdf
August 20, 2018 - 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/sites/default/files/publications/files/prospectscare.pdf
June 01, 2012 - Assess the accuracy of data automatically extracted from EHRs, for example by comparison with … Currently, the ability to link APCD data with outside
data sources, such as EHRs, is possible in only … Progress notes are a common example of
unstructured data within EHRs. … physicians—and that EHRs are designed to be customizable to match local workflow patterns. … Yet
another panelist characterized EHRs as “data sinks,” rather than data repositories.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/strategies-to-ensure-health-it-supports-pcmh.pdf
February 01, 2011 - the adoption of health information technology (IT) and
meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs … Answer: While the adoption and meaningful use of EHRs help support some aspects of the PCMH model, HITECH … HITECH and broader health reform legislation do offer some policy options, however, that could ensure EHRs … of EHRs often creates outcomes in direct conflict with
specific principles of medical homes. … The meaningful-use concept does not entirely require that EHRs support the ability of primary care and
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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/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/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/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/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/evidencenow-model.pdf
November 01, 2020 - provide timely feedback data to primary care
practices to drive QI, given the limitations of current EHRs … 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
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/heart-health/model.html
February 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 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/evidencenow/research-results/research/methods/index.html
December 01, 2020 - 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/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/evidencenow/tools/keydrivers/optimize-health-it.html
November 01, 2018 - Responsibilities can include making changes to documentation in EHRs, developing auditing tools, designing … EHRs are nearly universal in primary care practices, yet their potential to be catalysts for the use … However, some EHRs are better at supporting QI and QI measurement than others. … Maximizing the use of EHRs to attain actionable data may require working closely with the EHR vendor.
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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
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/primary-care.html
Resources for Better Management of Obesity
Create Accurate Reports from Electronic Health Records (EHRs
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/team-documentation.html
January 01, 2023 - A Team Approach to Documenting Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
Resource: Team Documentation
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/oklahoma.html
March 01, 2021 - Information technology support to help practices make more effective use of their electronic health records (EHRs … obtain ABCS data from the State’s HIEO and supplement them with measures generated by the practices' EHRs … However, the Cooperative found that certified EHRs often don't have the necessary capability to document … anticipated and the measures from the HIEO sometimes differ substantially from those generated by the EHRs … The challenges faced by the Oklahoma Cooperative in working with EHRs and the HIEO highlight the importance
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/learning-health-systems/frailty-ehr.pdf
September 01, 2022 - with developing EFI measures is the lack of
frailty variables captured as structured codes within EHRs … The index uses diagnosis, medication, and health services
data from EHRs. … EHRs versus Claims
EHRs are inherently different from insurance claims. … Comparing the completeness of data captured in EHRs versus claims is required before
developing or … and claims data, and comparing patient-level comorbidity scores
across EHRs and claims data.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/medication-mgmt-sample-process.pdf
January 12, 2017 - 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