Here’s what you should know.
1. The leaders were part of an Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology roundtable.
2. Leaders argued healthcare is at a critical point concerning how it measures quality.
3. With healthcare increasingly moving towards value-based spending, physicians have to make an improved effort to ensure improved quality of care.
4. Norman-based University of Oklahoma Department of Medical Informatics Chair David Kendrick, MD, argued that measures “must be standardized, replicable, validated, timely and actionable.
5. He said EHRs don’t go far enough. To truly make an impactful difference providers must integrate other data types to “truly capture what’s happening at the patient level.”
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