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A National Web Conference on Smart Forms and Quality Dashboards

Event Date: July 19, 2007 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm ET

Overall Purpose:

Electronic medical record (EMR) systems have been proposed as a supportive technology to aid physicians in decision-making and provide a means to capture and report on physician performance. However, many EMR systems are currently limited in their ability to achieve these desired goals.

A Partners HealthCare research project, "Evaluating Smart Forms and Quality Dashboards in an Electronic Medical Record," aims to examine whether EMR systems that provide both clinical-decision support (CDS) and population-based performance feedback will increase the value of electronic medical records to clinicians while improving patient safety and quality. The hope is that by demonstrating value, additional physicians will adopt EHR systems and begin using them to improve clinical decision-making and monitor their performance.

Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, the project's lead investigator, and project team member, Jeffrey Schnipper, will discuss how "smart forms" and "quality dashboards" provide value to clinicians, support patient safety and quality goals, and address clinical workflow and decision support requirements of an EMR system. The panel will also discuss how Partners Healthcare is currently redesigning its core health information technology (IT) infrastructure to better deliver CDS tools to clinicians in both inpatient and ambulatory settings. 

Event Materials:

  • Conference Presentation (PDF, 3.6 MB)
  • Event Transcript (PDF, 147 KB)
  • Recording of the Presentation
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