NQF reports target CDS, appropriate health IT use
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has released two new reports -- Driving Quality: A Model to Measure Electronic Health IT Use and Performance Measurement: A Foundation for Clinical Decision Support.
Identifying and developing health IT use measures and tracking performance on these measures requires an understanding of a system's features and functions, and when and how they are used, stated the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization.
The Driving Quality: A Model to Measure Electronic Health IT Use report, based on the work of NQF's Health IT Utilization Expert Panel, developed the "Health IT Use Assessment Framework," providing an approach to measuring the use of health IT tools and how that use improves care processes, quality and safety, according to NQF.
The panel's work expands on the Quality Data Set (QDS), a model of information that describes clinical concepts used in quality measurement and clinical care so providers, researchers, measure developers and others monitoring clinical performance and outcomes can consistently communicate necessary information, stated NQF.
NQF convened the Clinical Decision Support Expert Panel to develop CDS taxonomy. Driving Quality and Performance Measurement: A Foundation for Clinical Decision Support “provides a foundation for the description of an electronic infrastructure, bridging quality measurement and health IT,” according to a statement from NQF.
Identifying and developing health IT use measures and tracking performance on these measures requires an understanding of a system's features and functions, and when and how they are used, stated the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization.
The Driving Quality: A Model to Measure Electronic Health IT Use report, based on the work of NQF's Health IT Utilization Expert Panel, developed the "Health IT Use Assessment Framework," providing an approach to measuring the use of health IT tools and how that use improves care processes, quality and safety, according to NQF.
The panel's work expands on the Quality Data Set (QDS), a model of information that describes clinical concepts used in quality measurement and clinical care so providers, researchers, measure developers and others monitoring clinical performance and outcomes can consistently communicate necessary information, stated NQF.
NQF convened the Clinical Decision Support Expert Panel to develop CDS taxonomy. Driving Quality and Performance Measurement: A Foundation for Clinical Decision Support “provides a foundation for the description of an electronic infrastructure, bridging quality measurement and health IT,” according to a statement from NQF.