Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Considerations in implementing higher level functionality

• Acceptance of common vision of quality
  • Adoption of evidence based standards against which to judge care quality
  • Agreement to conform to standardized ways of recording data
• Ability to capture and process relevant data
  • Relevant care elements are captured as structured information
  • Implies that "order entry" is computerized
  • Data is "clean" and consistent

Notes:

Here is what needs to be done in order to use the system as a database—these things are needed
Because the care process is important to capture as data—must have order entry and clean/consistent data across providers, care settings etc.