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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 181-184Publisher
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001789
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Using electronic health records (EHR) to automate publicly reported quality measures is receiving increasing attention and is one of the promises of EHR implementation. Kaiser Permanente has fully or partly automated six of 13 the joint commission measure sets. We describe our experience with automation and the resulting time savings: a reduction by approximately 50% of abstractor time required for one measure set alone (surgical care improvement project). However, our experience illustrates the gap between the current and desired states of automated public quality reporting, which has important implications for measure developers, accrediting entities, EHR vendors, public/private payers, and government.
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