Improving Patient Safety with Portals, Clinical Analytics and More

Improving Patient Safety with Portals, Clinical Analytics and More

Health information technology value can be determined by looking at how it was employed in real-life situations.Four examples  of HIT value from new case studies in the Stories of Success! program from HIMSS and co-sponsors American Society for Quality (ASQ), National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF).

1.The Institute for Family Health, New York, NY- tracking data showed that patients using the portal sent over 27,000 messages to their providers requesting 4,500 prescription refills and scheduling 4,100 appointments.

2.Miramont Family Medicine, Ft. Collins, Colo.- has more than doubled, from 41% to 91%, the number of ?documented A1c tests, measuring blood sugar control for several months, for its patients with diabetes.

3. Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, Va.- used embedded analytics to study and help ?prevent multi-drug-resistant infections.

4. Weill Cornell, part of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York,- mapped data from over 19 agencies to a ?standard name to transform more than 12 million lab results so that providers can trend their data regardless of the agency.

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