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Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference


Challenges

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  1. Varied HIT implementations for varied purposes
  2. Varied perspectives on what is important to evaluate
  3. Variable timing of implementations
  4. Community based studies, network effects
  5. Confounders
  6. Rapid time-frame for studies
  7. Data source challenges
    1. Availability
    2. Uniformity
    3. Metric definition
    4. Importance of numerators and denominators
  8. Financial constraints for data collection

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