This white paper shares lessons learned about how primary care practices can effectively use health information technology (IT) to support quality improvement (QI). The lessons are drawn from discussions with experts in fields such as health IT, clinical practice, primary care transformation,...

This article cite progress on the adoption of health information technology (HIT) that meets Medicare’s criteria for “meaningful use.†Through an analysis of Medicare data, the study found a substantial increase in the percentage of hospitals receiving electronic health record...

The national effort to promote the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) is well under way. However, 2014 marks an important transition: For many hospitals, penalties will be assessed in fiscal year 2015 for failing to meet federal meaningful-use criteria by the end of...

Hospitals face increasing pressure to implement medication reconciliation—a systematic way to ensure accurate patient medication lists at admission, during a hospitalization and at discharge—to reduce errors and improve patient outcomes. Electronic health records (EHRs) can help...

Documents workarounds used in independent, community-based primary care practices.

This article cite progress on the adoption of health information technology (HIT) that meets Medicare’s criteria for “meaningful use.†Through an analysis of Medicare data, the study found a substantial increase in the percentage of hospitals receiving electronic health record...

This paper identifies opportunities for using multifactorial designs and electronic health record data to evaluate quality improvement efforts in physicians' practices. Examples include using multifactorial designs to evaluate clinical decision support features and studying components of a...