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Improving Health-Care Statistics Through Electronic Medical Records and Health Information Exchange Workshop, May 29-30, 2007

Safran C, Bloomrosen M, Hammond WE, Labkoff S, Markel-Fox S, Tang PC, Detmer DE, Expert Panel. Toward a national framework for the secondary use of health data: an American Medical Informatics Association White Paper. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007 Jan-Feb;14(1):1-9. Link to free full-text article

Tang PC, Ralston M, Arrigotti MF, Qureshi L, Graham J. Comparison of methodologies for calculating quality measures based on administrative data versus clinical data from an electronic health record system: implications for performance measures. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007 Jan-Feb;14(1):10-5.

Hornbrook MC, Whitlock EP, Berg CJ, Callaghan WM, Bachman DJ, Gold R, Bruce FC, Dietz PM, Williams SB. Development of an algorithm to identify pregnancy episodes in an integrated health care delivery system. Health Serv Res. 2007 Apr;42(2):908-27. Link to abstract

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