Improving patient safety and health care quality through health information technology
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- TrendWatch (American Hospital Association) and Annual survey IT supplement brief (American Hospital Association)
- Contributor(s):
- American Hospital Association, issuing body. Milken Institute School of Public Health, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : American Hospital Association, July 2018
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Electronic Health Records Medical Informatics Patient Safety Quality of Health Care Decision Support Techniques Medical Order Entry Systems Patient Identification Systems Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The potential to improve patient safety and quality through better information sharing and guidance around best practices is a critical component of the value proposition for health information technology (IT) systems. Nationwide efforts, including the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, supported the expansion of health IT that enables the sharing of clinical information. Advantages include sharing images and patient records, supporting clinicians through improved access to data and best practices for care, and contributing to patient safety through tools such as medication reconciliation. New care delivery structures depend on EHRs and health IT systems to collect, use, and track data necessary to deliver high-quality, value-based, coordinated care. Hospitals and health systems increasingly use EHRs and other health IT tools to support patient safety and improve care delivery. These tools have varying capabilities, but core functions include capturing clinical information--such as physician and nursing notes, test results, prescriptions, and problem lists--and ongoing monitoring and analysis of patient status indicators and outcomes. While the promise of health IT for quality and safety improvement has begun to materialize, there is still more to achieve. This brief is the third in a series highlighting survey results from the 2016 AHA Annual Survey Information Technology Supplement for community hospitals collected November 2016--April 2017.2 This brief focuses on the use of health IT by hospitals and health systems to improve patient safety and health care quality.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (4 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101751729 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101751729