Hospitals
More quality-of-care measures are derived from administrative claims data than from electronic health record data, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
The study found that EHR data was more reliable than claims data for identifying conditions in patients that would make good targets for quality-of-care measures. In addition, the study warns that basing quality measures on claims data could have an adverse effect on adoption of EHR systems.
The study concluded that EHR data can better identify quality-of-care targets and should be used by policymakers to create quality measures (Tang et al., Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, January/February).