The National Quality Forum (NQF) of Washington, DC, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare in the U.S., has published two reports to promote the use of healthcare IT systems.
The "Driving Quality: A Model to Measure Electronic Health IT Use" report describes a health IT use assessment framework designed to measure the use of health IT tools. The framework is intended to provide clear guidelines for the information needed to construct measures that improve care processes, quality, and safety.
This report expands upon NQF's quality dataset, a model of information that describes clinical concepts used in quality measurement and clinical care intended to facilitate communication of information among providers.
The second report, "Driving Quality and Performance Measurement: A Foundation for Clinical Decision Support," provides a taxonomy and foundation for the description of an electronic infrastructure bridging quality measurement and health IT.
The reports may be accessed here.
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