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- Title
e-Measures: insight into the challenges and opportunities of automating publicly reported quality measures.
- Authors
Garrido, Terhilda; Kumar, Sudheen; Lekas, John; Lindberg, Mark; Kadiyala, Dhanyaja; Whippy, Alan; Crawford, Barbara; Weissberg, Jed
- Abstract
Using electronic health records (EHR) to automate publicly reported quality measures is receiving increasing attention and is one of the promises of EHR implementation. Kaiser Permanente has fully or partly automated six of 13 the joint commission measure sets. We describe our experience with automation and the resulting time savings: a reduction by approximately 50% of abstractor time required for one measure set alone (surgical care improvement project). However, our experience illustrates the gap between the current and desired states of automated public quality reporting, which has important implications for measure developers, accrediting entities, EHR vendors, public/private payers, and government.
- Publication
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2014, Vol 21, Issue 1, p181
- ISSN
1527-974X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001789