Quality Measurement

This project will examine the quality and safety impact of patient-initiated telemedicine visits with primary care providers.

This project will create and evaluate a learning network to expand the use of the Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) registry for patient-reported outcomes on rheumatoid arthritis.

This project created and evaluated a process to present quality data via physician’s online certification portal and found that the availability of that data did not result in improvement of quality measures.

This project will develop and validate new measures needed for automatically identifying violations of the “Five Rights of Medication Safety”: right patient, right dose, right medication, right route, and right frequency.

This project designed and conducted a usability evaluation of dashboards that provide feedback to home care nurses to improve the care of patients with chronic heart failure, and found that the dashboard prototype had high usability and was evaluated positively by users.

This project provided input to inform the development of nine proposed Stage 3 MU objectives focused on patient engagement, interoperability, and care coordination.

This project assessed quality measurement performance and electronic health record (EHR) implementation and found that EHR reminders were associated with improved performance.

This project developed and implemented a large-scale approach to measuring the impact of health information technology on the quality and variability of care in ambulatory settings, and along racial and ethnic lines.