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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/past-initiatives/health-it-enabled-quality-measurement
January 01, 2023 - materials emanating from this initiative will culminate in the development of a strategic plan to improve health … care quality enabled by health IT. … measurement, reflecting the expectation that health IT-enabled quality measurement can make quality improvement
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/bringing-measurement-point-care/citation/intended-and-unintended-consequences
January 01, 2023 - The intended and unintended consequences of quality improvement interventions for small practices in … The intended and unintended consequences of quality improvement interventions for small practices in
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r18hs026189-ko-final-report-2023.pdf
January 01, 2023 - assessments of care
delivery, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) hold great promise to improve care … quality. … Motivations involved leadership enthusiasm for the project to obtain novel data that could improve care … quality. … As the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) now mandates PROMs to evaluate the care quality
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/assessingdynamicchroniccareimphndbk_120111comp.pdf
November 01, 2011 - Assessing the Assessing the Impact of a Dynamic Chronic Care Registry on the Quality of Care - Implementation … Handbook
Assessing the Impact of a
Dynamic Chronic Care Registry on
the Quality of Care
Implementation … Assessing the Impact of a
Dynamic Chronic Care Registry on the Quality of Care: Implementation Handbook … Purpose
To improve quality of care provided to adult diabetic patients currently receiving care within … For instance, providers respond to performance feedback and improve the
quality of care they deliver
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/nemeth-ls
January 01, 2023 - Two practices achieved significant improvement on 14 of the 15 measures. … barriers and facilitators to the use of electronic SOs in these practices; and to measure changes in quality … of care indicators resulting from use of electronic SOs. … Workflow-Related Findings
Practices with the greatest improvement had established policies and protocols
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/nlp-slides-041112.pdf
April 11, 2012 - A National Web Conference on the Use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to Improve Quality Improvement … Northwest
Center for Health Research
Background
Quality of care in the U.S. health care
system … – Automated, comprehensive, care quality assessments
– The EMR could make possible automated assessment … of Care
in Diabetes: Lessons Learned
Alexander Turchin, MD, MS
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard … Asthma Care Quality (ACQ) Study
NLP to Measure Quality of Care in Diabetes: Lessons Learned
Project
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/Quality%20Engineering%20Group%20Report%20Day%202.pdf
September 22, 2009 - ISyE-Enabled continuity of care for internal quality improvement/creating
a ‘learning system’
3. … Rigorous analysis of quality improvement in healthcare (Simply what
works and doesn’t work?) … No ‘Czar’ for healthcare quality improvement
1. … Organize an informal council of leaders driving improvement of healthcare through ISyE
6. … Need to define FTE put into quality improvement activities to get passed tipping point ��
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/bringing-measurement-point-care
January 01, 2023 - introducing health information technology tools to assist small primary care practices in measuring quality … of care. … The primary objectives of this project were to:
Design a simple and intuitive point of care quality … Though most quality measures selected for this study showed post implementation improvement, a review … The intended and unintended consequences of quality improvement interventions for small practices in
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/eDecisionsReport.pdf
August 06, 2013 - Caveats
• Integration of local HIE hubs to RHIOs is not the only way to use the
Internet to improve health … care quality in primary care practices … relationship with a
group of practices over a period of time to help them to evaluate
and improve their quality … of care. … of improvement from the baseline.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/choice-coalition-hospices-organized-investigate-comparative-effectiveness/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - Pennsylvania
Funding Mechanism
PAR: HS08-269: Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health … Care Quality Through Health Information Technology (IT) (R21)
Grant Number
R21 HS 021780 … quality measures by first identifying the proportion of patient’s records from which key palliative care … quality indicators can be abstracted from the electronic health record (EHR). … (Upcoming)
Identify high-priority targets for improvement.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/past-initiatives/transforming-healthcare-quality-through-health-it/hands-care-plan-tool-seeks
January 01, 2023 - more smoothly it seems to flow and how much less time it takes," says Melissa Ackron, R.N., a quality improvement
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/impact-health-it-implementation-diabetes-process-and-outcome-measures/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - Institute
Funding Mechanism
PAR: HS08-269: Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health … Care Quality Through Health Information Technology (IT) (R21)
Grant Number
R21 HS 020696 … including insight regarding the potential of and need for disease-specific EHR components to effect improvement … Components of the optimal care bundle showing positive improvement after adjustment were systolic blood … EHR practices, all process and outcome measures, except HbA1c and lipid control, showed significant improvement
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/enhancing-complex-care-through-integrated-care-coordination-information-system/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - Measures include indicators of patient engagement, clinic-level quality of care, clinic-level process … In terms of the quality improvement measures, of the five quality improvement measures tracked in the
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/final-hit-enabled-quality-measurement-snapshot.pdf
July 01, 2012 - care quality improvement efforts. … Many Federal Agencies such as CMS produce
reports on the quality of health care in the United States … The urgent need to
improve health care quality. … Institute of Medicine
National Roundtable on health care quality. … Two key
health care quality alliances, the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance
(AQA) and the Hospital
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/final-hit-enabled-quality-measurement-snapshot.pdf
July 01, 2012 - care quality improvement efforts. … Many Federal Agencies such as CMS produce
reports on the quality of health care in the United States … The urgent need to
improve health care quality. … Institute of Medicine
National Roundtable on health care quality. … Two key
health care quality alliances, the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance
(AQA) and the Hospital
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/healthitandlaborders.pdf
November 01, 2011 - of care in two important areas: treatment of HIV and screening for cervical
cancer. … of care by
reducing the numbers of duplicate lab tests, “lost” results, and lab results which lack … of care for patients in this health care safety net. … of care by facilitating laboratory ordering and management of lab results, these
improvements may … Progress in using health IT to improve quality of
care is also hindered by a lack of national interoperability
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digital.ahrq.gov/events/national-web-conference-using-health-it-chronic-disease-management
January 01, 2023 - an evaluation of whether EMR-embedded clinical decision support as part of a multi-faceted quality improvement … Cebul will present results from a learning collaborative for quality improvement. … Physicians will be able to describe how health information technology can be used to improve health care … quality for those in chronic pain.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/research-centers-primary-care-practice-based-research-and-learning
January 01, 2023 - It has three primary aims:
To turn EHR data into actionable information for quality improvement and … To empirically test theoretically sound primary care quality improvement interventions. … Clinical quality measure reports were enhanced to support research, quality improvement, and value-based
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs020270-alpern-final-report-2017.pdf
January 01, 2017 - of care performance measures. … Context: The complexity of contemporary health care systems makes measuring quality
of care difficult … of care across multiple settings. … of care we provide our patients. … quality improvement.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/using-evidence-based-nursing-practices-and-electronic-health-record-decision
January 01, 2023 - Theme
Care Planning
Clinical Decision Making
Clinical Workflow
Patient Education
Quality Improvement … decision support (CDS) tools to support nurses in the development of care plans and involvement in quality improvement … Assess whether the CDS tools could help nurses improve care planning and quality-improvement activities … Three tools were built: (1) a care planning CDS tool (CP-CDS), (2) a quality improvement CDS tool (QI-CDS … support (QI-CDS) tool (Chapter 3; Figures 11-12; Appendix K) Citation: Specifications for a quality improvement