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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/survey/measuring-clinical-quality-provider.pdf
June 16, 2021 - learn about provider attitudes towards quality measurement; and
To understand the current challenges providers … Should quality measures be used to publicly
recognize providers? Why/why not?
12. … Should quality measures be used to offer
rewards/incentives to providers? Why/why not? … What can the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene do to help providers improve the quality of
care
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/past-initiatives/state-and-regional-demonstration-projects/delaware
January 01, 2023 - implementation of an integrated, statewide health data system to support the information needs of healthcare providers … Information Network (DHIN) is using a point-of-care model to create an electronic method for healthcare providers … Health and Social Services, Delaware Department of Insurance, Delaware State Budget Office, insurance providers … Goal
The principal goal of DHIN is to share real-time clinical information among all health care providers … DHIN is considered a partnership between the State and healthcare providers.
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/identifying-patients-high-need-during-care-transitions-improve-care-and-meet-social-needs
January 01, 2023 - individuals with housing insecurity may not only require followup care from medical and behavioral health providers … transitions intervention (CTI) that used health information exchange (HIE) data to alert primary care providers … transition followup using algorithms and risk stratification and to engage social and behavioral health providers … The enhanced CTI will send providers real-time discharge alerts generated by a robust algorithm that … curated by a professional care manager and shared with healthcare, behavioral health, and social service providers
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digital.ahrq.gov/2020-year-review/program-background
January 01, 2020 - mHealth) and other technologies that enable patient-generated health data collection and reporting to providers … allowed providers to remotely access information on patient’s health status, conditions, and symptoms … , allowing patients to remain safely in their homes, and providers to monitor patients remotely. … care, and how to effectively integrate patient-reported health data into workflow to guide healthcare providers
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs023704-adelman-final-report-2019.pdf
January 01, 2019 - Participants
Providers. … We therefore included in the study all providers with the authority to place electronic orders. … c These providers switched between arms at least once during the course of the trial period. … Participants
Providers. … Providers were excluded if their workflow eithe...
Patients.
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digital.ahrq.gov/2020-year-review/research-spotlight
January 01, 2020 - Expanding Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic to Keep Patients and Healthcare Providers … Primary care physicians and advanced practice providers were able to evaluate patients who feared they … Providers were able to remotely monitor their patients with chronic diseases through mobile devices and … Providers were motivated to use telemonitoring technologies for symptom monitoring, collecting these … Despite these known benefits to providers and patients, there are still unanswered questions on the impact
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/health-information-exchange-frontier-model/annual-summary/2009
January 01, 2009 - When full medical information is unavailable to providers, decisions must either be made with incomplete … , and behavioral health providers across the rural, remote Nebraska Panhandle. … Partnering organizations envisioned a regional electronic HIE that would enable providers, patients, … Project partners include all of the area’s hospitals, a membership organization of local health providers … Beginning in 2006, the Regional West Medical Center (RWMC) portal allowed health care providers to access
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/implementation-health-improvement-collaboration-cherokee-county-ok/annual-summary/2008
January 01, 2008 - An initial patient survey asked participants about the degree of difficulty they had locating providers … A Web-based service to find health providers was developed on a statewide basis, supported by 24-hour … to help patients locate providers in their area. ( Achieved )
2008 Activities: The health data … The provider directory project has led to a publicly-available product, including over 10,000 providers … The goal of this system is to provide a public and objective link to locating health care providers.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/ehealth-records-improve-dental-care-patients-chronic-illnesses/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - Dental providers were randomly assigned to one of the intervention groups or the control group. … However, providers did not sustain their high level of use of the system. … Both provider and patient alerts had a generalizable, sustainable effect of increasing the providers … This study demonstrates that CDS that alerts providers through EDRs or alerts patients through PHRs can … who use it and to improve transferability and scalability of a system to more dental providers while
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-health-care-quality-through-health-information-technology-it-people
January 01, 2023 - Special Olympics Healthy Athletes medical and health screening data with caregivers and health care providers … derived from the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes screening program with caregivers and health care providers … Only two of the family members shared the PHR-ID with their adult child’s clinical providers. … a USB drive created challenges for compatibility with families’ computers, as well as concerns from providers … Both families and providers recommended a Web-based PHR for the future.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/nlp-enabled-decision-support-cervical-cancer-screening-and-surveillance
January 01, 2023 - As such, guidelines can be challenging for healthcare providers to follow and may lead to patients receiving … discrete and free-text information in a patient’s record may vastly improve a system’s ability to prompt providers … Determine the impact of CDS alerts to healthcare providers. … subsequently developed the CDS system workflow to deliver real-time screening and surveillance to the providers … the study successfully demonstrated improvement in overall screening rates with real-time CDS to the providers
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/forging-pathway-for-electronic-prescribing-of-controlled-substances.pdf
March 01, 2014 - Technology
Ambulatory Safety and Quality | IQHIT
Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) helps clini-
cal providers … In a survey of providers who participated in
the project, conducted by Brandeis University, respon- … • Providers were satisfied with the EPCS system
and found it to have value. … , after having had experience with EPCS,
providers found the security measures to be less bur-
densome … than expected.2 Some providers who did not
use EPCS during the project felt the learning curve
was
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/reducing-provider-burden-qa-012518.pdf
January 25, 2018 - We
did collect data on diagnosis and providers CPT coding from each visit. … Providers also felt that some of these could have been
completed offline and by other staff, hence not … However, these studies do not outline the cost (burden) of providers
achieving such outcomes. b) There … ANSWER:
Lukasz Mazur:
Attitudes towards using EHRs can certainly influence providers' task demands, … Based on the opinions of 2590 providers, authors found that 55.5% believed that the
EHRs did not have
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/impact-meaningful-use-clinical-workflow-emergency-departments
January 01, 2023 - At the academic health centers, providers saw several patients concurrently, resulting in a more chaotic … workflow and providers spending more time using the EHR for documentation. … In comparison, the providers working in community settings had a more linear workflow because they saw … to increase efficiency and reduce physician burnout, but noted that this may increase errors unless providers … Contextual computing: a Bluetooth based approach for tracking healthcare providers in the emergency room
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017270-fricton-final-report-2011.pdf
January 01, 2011 - The provider activation group clinics included 32 dental providers. … The patient activation group
clinics included 38 providers. … The control group clinics included 39 providers. … All providers in both intervention groups were
masked to the study protocol. … Exploring our role as health care providers: the oral-medical connection.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/computer-assisted-medication-and-patient-information-interface-campii/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - a tool to improve and standardize the flow of information between patients with type 2 diabetes and providers … The patient information interface will obtain complete and accurate information from patients so that providers … and the quality of information shared with patients and other providers, with a particular focus on … accuracy, acceptability, time efficiency, and utility of the patient information interface for both providers … Providers will be able to update a daily medication schedule for the patient that includes pill pictures
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017094-mccolm-final-report-2009.pdf
January 01, 2009 - These providers deliver 70,000 patient encounters each year. … Although providers can code their own encounters, most providers
indicate a diagnosis and a coder validates … There was no financial incentive provided for CMH providers. … CMH rural health clinic
providers are not eligible for the PQRI bonus. … One coder, coding for two providers, did continue coding throughout the comparison period.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/integration-nlp-based-application-support-medication-management/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - This study showed that 31 percent of the active medications mentioned in providers’ notes were missing … In addition, this study found that providers often needed information beyond the medication list to make … Zhou and her research team conducted two focus groups with health care providers and one focus group … Health care providers who participated in the focus groups were from the two primary care sites where … The providers agreed that the tool will help them identify missing medications found only in clinical
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/continuous-predictive-analytics-monitoring-improve-care-risk
January 01, 2023 - complications can be lessened by early recognition and timely intervention, which is a challenge for healthcare providers … bedside—including signals from EKGs captured every 2 seconds to get individual heartbeats and breaths—could warn providers … The monitoring system gives providers an earlier window of treatment when intervention is most effective … By shifting the care from reactive to proactive, providers can recognize earlier in the clinical course … creation of visual tools allows for predictive analytics monitoring, while reducing the cognitive load for providers
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs025412-bajaj-final-report-2024.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Smart devices and health information technology
(HIT) could offer health care providers help in tracking … Patients, caregivers, and providers were engaged in questionnaires about the study and
Apps during and … The
alerts are monitored by providers through a central iPad. … Twelve providers completed the surveys
reflecting the following themes—92% and 100%, felt adequately … Subjective and objective burden on
providers from a multicenter app-based study of patients with