Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Our Interest in Health IT and HIE

Health IT and electronic health information exchange hold great promise for realizing dramatic improvements in quality by helping to:

• Reduce medical errors
• Ensure care is more evidence-based
• Get patients more involved in their own care
• Facilitate measurement and public reporting of provider performance.

Notes:

We started working on health IT issues as a natural outgrowth of our efforts to improve the quality of our health care system (above).