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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/strategy-reducing-regulatory-and-administrative-burden-relating-use-health-it-and-ehrs
December 18, 2013 - Strategy on Reducing Regulatory and Administrative Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs … Text:
Strategy on Reducing Regulatory and Administrative Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs … Text:
Strategy on Reducing Regulatory and Administrative Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45183/psn-pdf
July 20, 2016 - Early adopters of EHRs did appear to have a stronger culture of safety, but this
finding could either … mean that EHRs improved safety or that hospitals that emphasized other measures to
improve safety culture … also tended to adopt EHRs earlier.
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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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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/usability-and-safety-analysis-electronic-health-records-multi-center-study
October 13, 2018 - emergency department physicians completed standardized tasks using actual electronic health records (EHRs … Even though two sites used Epic and two used Cerner EHRs, the number of clicks per task, time to task … Resources From the Same Author(s)
Are informed policies in place to promote safe and usable EHRs
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/value_of_health_information_exchange_in_ambulatory_care_2009_pdf__2.pdf
January 01, 2009 - the point at which cost or expenses and benefit are equal) more quickly than deploying full
function EHRs … This
insight may suggest an approach that leverages HIE and less sophisticated EHRs to create value … that can
then be invested in deploying full function EHRs. … of fully interoperable EHRs. … and greater net
value than a strategy that relies on an initial deployment of fully interoperable EHRs
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effectivehealthcare-admin.ahrq.gov/products/pediatric-ehr/research-protocol
December 01, 2019 - care and reducing error and variability in the entry and communication of patient data. 4-9 While EHRs … children and adolescents, 14,15 and hepatitis C follow-up in infants. 16 However, few studies of EHRs … by pediatricians, 45 but the degree to which pediatricians are actually using EHRs appropriate for … Another challenge is that requirements and EHRs for inpatient and outpatient settings may differ and … Similarly, individual reports may address specific elements of EHRs such as order entry or electronic
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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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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/use-dense-display-data-and-information-design-principles-primary-care-health
January 01, 2023 - usability and information design shortcomings as reasons for poor adoption of electronic health records (EHRs … Little systematic evidence has been gathered on the usability of EHRs in practices and how their design … Further, the role of EHRs in patient care is evolving significantly as adoption is incentivized, health … This involves indicating how EHRs are and are not being used optimally.
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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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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49767/psn-pdf
August 21, 2016 - Interoperability of
EHRs is a top policy priority in the United States because it offers clinicians … might the health system described still lack interoperability between its inpatient and outpatient EHRs … Today, our electronic
system is fragmented, with thousands of different EHRs being used by providers … In the context of EHRs, interoperability means that it should not require special effort on the part … We lack interoperability across EHRs today because of myriad technical, policy, and cultural barriers
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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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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-bibliography/electronic-health-record-ehr-systems/background
Electronic Health Records for Small Practices
This white paper reviews the current status of EHRs … It is intended to provide background for those
exploring the implementation of EHRs in a variety of small
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/2011_021008_sockolow_pdf_3.pdf
January 01, 2011 - population, more home health agencies in the United States are implementing electronic health records
(EHRs … The impact of implementing EHRs in hospital and ambulatory care settings has been studied, but little … research has been done on implementing EHRs in home care settings. … recommendations from the
research team on developing Meaningful Use criteria specific for home care EHRs
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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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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/HIT_and_Quality_062310_comp.pdf
June 23, 2010 - Integrating Quality Measures into EHRs:
Lessons Learned and Next Generation
Measure Specifications … • Reporting on quality measures from EHRS –
Cardio-HIT Project
• Data entry
• Date validation
• … PCPI Model to Help Advance the Integration of
Quality Measures into EHRs
• 1. … • What is the agreement between automated
reporting and manual review of EHRs? … Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
PCPI Measures in Use
Quality Measures and EHRs
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www.cahps.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.healthcare411.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.innovations.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.