e-Measures: Insight into the challenges and opportunities of automating publicly reported quality measures

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 181-184

  Garrido, Terhilda ^a   Kumar, Sudheen ^a   Lekas, John ^a   Lindberg, Mark ^a   Kadiyala, Dhanyaja ^a   Whippy, Alan ^b   Crawford, Barbara ^c   Weissberg, Jed ^d  

^a Kaiser Permanente   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Care and Service Quality   (United States)

^d Kaiser Permanente   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; QUALITY CONTROL; SURGERY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; QUALITY ASSURANCE/HEALTH CARE;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890450624     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001789     Document Type: Article

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