Wired for Quality: The Intersection of Health IT and Healthcare Quality
The issue brief explores how health information technology (HIT) can improve the quality of healthcare, the benefits of electronic health records to clinical practitioners (e.g., clinical decision support), and the importance of ensuring that quality improvement and HIT adoption go hand-in-hand.
via qualityforum.org
Nice document (#7 pages) from the National Quality Forum (NQF). NQF has previously recognized pharmacist leadership as essential in assuring the safety/quality of the medication-use process. (http://www.ashp.org/import/news/NewsCapsules/article.aspx?id=276)
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BCMA omitted in NQF for good reason
Because the scientific evidence sucks. Sorry for being so blunt, but I have spoken to this many times. This is the same reason BCMA is not in Meaningful Use.
Here is the pdf link
http://www.qualityforum.org/Publications/2008/03/Wired_for_Quality__The_...