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Data qualityHealth care analyticsHealth information technologyHealth care claimsThe current trend in Big Data analytics and in particular health information technology is toward building sophisticated models, methods and tools for business, operational and clinical intelligence. However, the critical issue of...
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Budget: Fact Sheet he Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is the federal agency charged with supporting research T designed to improve the quality of health care, inc...
An EHR is the electronic form of a paper health record that includes personally identifiable health data. EHRs have the potential to improve the healthcare system in ways yet unforeseen. Consider personalized medicine, which incorporates patient data from various sources to create a treatment plan ...
According to the CDC, data can be a catalyst for improving community health and well-being. “Understanding data on social determinants of health, such as income, educational level, and employment, can help focus efforts to improve community health.” In other words, if you don’t have...
In recent years, there have been several studies, using a wide variety of methods, aimed at developing quality indicators for palliative care. In this Quality Indicators for Palliative Care study (Q-PAC study) we have applied a scientifically rigorous method to develop a comprehensive and valid ...
However, most scientists receive no training in methods for achieving, assessing, or controlling the quality of research data—topics central to clinical research informatics. This chapter covers the basics of collect and process research data given the available data sources, systems, and people. ...
There were limited data on the costs of these strategies, as only one study reported cost data. Conclusion There are several promising strategies that may improve health care quality for racial/ethnic minorities, but a lack of studies specifically targeting disease areas and processes of care for ...
We accounted for variations in cause of death certification and misclassifications through the extensive data standardisation processes and redistribution algorithms developed for GBD. To isolate the effects of personal health-care access and quality, we risk-standardised cause-specific mortality rates for ...
Germany and 3Centre for Quality Management in Health Care, Berliner Allee 20, 30175 Hannover, Germany Email: Anne Schmidt* - anne.schmidt@charite.de; Kerstin Wenninger - kerstinwenninger@web.de; Nadja Niemann - nadja.niemann@zq- aekn.de; Ulrich Wahn - ulrich.wahn@charite.de; Doris Staab ...