By: UPMC News Bureau on Mar 07 2005 08:00:11
PITTSBURGH – "Despite multiple challenges, health care professionals are embracing information technology and are enabled to do their jobs more efficiently with the use of electronic health records," stated G. Daniel Martich, M.D., vice president of eRecord at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) at a March 4 presentation before the American Medical Association's Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement in Chicago.
The Consortium includes representatives from more than 60 national medical specialty and state medical societies, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and works to develop evidence-based clinical performance measures and clinical outcomes reporting tools to support physicians in quality improvement efforts.
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