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Web Conference on Improving Health IT Safety through the Use Natural Language Processing to Improve Accuracy of EHR Documentation

This tool is intended to aid grantees in their reporting of the clinical measures reported on UDS Tables 6B and 7. There is a separate data entry sheet included in this spreadsheet for each of the clinical measures which permit for a sample.  In addition, this tool contains output forms which can be used for data entry into the UDS form (in the EHB) and a summary of the results.

Nine articles chosen to help leaders frame a business case for quality and health information technology initiatives to their peers and leaders.

The goal of this paper is to clarify the roles of several health care data technologies that are often confusing to people, including Electronic Health Record (EHR) Databases, Analytic Systems and Data Warehouses, and Health Information Exchange (HIE) Data Repositories.

Progress from Quality Improvement efforts can be undermined by the ease of falling back into the old way of doing things. As such, it is critical to have an intentional, organized approach to sustaining any improvements that have been realized. This article discusses four key steps.