Data by Geography Training

Nathan E Botts Friday, June 24, 2016 0 13863 Article rating: No rating

A Health Resources & Services Administration YouTube video

HRSA’s mission is to improve health and achieve health equity through access to quality services, a skilled health workforce, and innovative programs. This video provides an overview of how to utilize the Data by Geography tool that helps outline HRSA’s investments nationwide or by a geographic area, including: HHS region, state, county, congressional district, and ZIP Code.

NQF Identification and Prioritization of HIT Patient Safety Measures

Nathan E Botts Wednesday, March 16, 2016 0 10827 Article rating: No rating

National Quality Forum HIT Safety Report

From the NQF website:

"In order to address the rapidly-evolving area of HIT and its intersection with quality and outcomes, NQF initiated a project to develop a set of recommendations around the measurement of HIT-related safety issues."

Health IT Summaries

Nathan E Botts Tuesday, March 8, 2016 0 0 Article rating: No rating

U.S. National and State Health IT data and statistics.

From the HealthIT.gov website:

"All referenced national level measures are provided for the most recent period of data in the 'all U.S.' report. All referenced state level measures are provided for the most recent period of data, in addition to at most two years of preceding trend data. State level measures are visualized side-by-side with national level measures for state-specific reports. All of the data is fully accessible, with full data documentation, through the Dashboard."