Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Other Considerations

• Standardization across all units in org would bring many more benefits (study costs prohibitive)
• HANDS generates data for describing care, progress toward outcomes, meeting goals, RN patient load, benchmarking best practices
• EHRs are costly spend billions of dollars (over and above software costs) training and tailoring to foster variation in look and feel... away from standardization