December 22, 2010
Article
A national study of electronic health record (EHR) adoption and hospital quality finds that existing measures may be inappropriate for assessing the effect of EHR adoption on quality.
March 09, 2010
Article
In a health plan–sponsored e-prescribing initiative, participating PCPs' mean e-prescribing rate was 1 prescription per 4 pharmacy claims, but some PCPs achieved high use.
January 01, 2009
Article
Typical health plan data provide limited information for benchmarking physician performance using even a less stringent rule for attributing patient measures to physicians.
December 01, 2008
Article
At least 50 quality events per physician are needed to reach a minimum level of reliability for most quality measures calculated from administrative data.