AHRQ Report: Health IT Adoption Could Lead to Gains in Care Quality

Reliable electronic health systems and high levels of health IT adoption could play a key role in ensuring the success of future quality improvement initiatives, according to the 2009 National Healthcare Quality Report from HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Modern Healthcare reports (McKinney, Modern Healthcare, 4/14).
Overall Findings
The congressionally mandated analysis tracked the U.S. health care system's performance on more than 200 quality measures in 2007 (Preidt, HealthDay, 4/13).
Although researchers found that overall health care quality improved by 2.3%, they also found that rates for certain infections worsened across the previous year (McKinney, Modern Healthcare, 4/13).

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