A Great Look Into Healthcare Quality Improvement

As I think back on the evolution of EHR software and healthcare IT, it’s been incredible to see how EHR has moved from being something that could help improve your billing to now trying to be something to improve the quality of healthcare that’s being provided. In fact, I’ve long argued that the expectation of EHR was far ahead of the EHR reality. EHRs weren’t designed for quality and so it was a mistake for many to believe that it would improve quality.

While that’s the reality of history, going forward the new EHR reality is that they better figure out how to improve healthcare quality. In fact, the ones that are able to do this are going to be the most successful.

As we shift our focus to healthcare quality, I was intrigued by this video animation by Doc Mike Evans describing healthcare quality. It’s fascinating to look at the history and consider healthcare quality going forward.

What do you think of Doc Mike Evans’ thoughts on Healthcare Quality Improvement? Is he spot on? Is there something he’s missing?

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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