Quality and cost improvement of healthcare via complementary measurement and diagnosis of patient general health outcome using electronic health record data: Research rationale and design

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Stusser, Rodolfo J ^a   Dickey, Richard A ^b  

^a Institutes of Health   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical decision support system; Diagnostic algorithm; Electronic health record; Health care costs; Health care outcome assessment; Health care reform; Health promotion; Health status; Medical informatics; Outpatients; Primary health care; Quality of health care; Research design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; RESEARCH; SIMULATION; WELLBEING; COST; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNITED STATES;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883825209     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-013-9977-9     Document Type: Article

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