Select an area of Health Information Technology Continuous Quality Improvement (HIT CQI)

Select an area of Health Information Technology Continuous Quality Improvement (HIT
CQI) recommendations of interest( ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD) Choose an area of interest to you as an Advanced nursing provider such as DNP to
improve patient outcomes, safety, quality, processes, or costs. This may include items
such as EMR, episode start and end dates for global procedure codes, benchmarking data,
standardizing survey items for same quality measures, or reducing disparities in health
and care through modifying existing mechanisms to report race and ethnicity, language,
etc.
 Discuss the role of Health Information Technology in Quality Improvement targeting
your area of interest. Include a discussion of how this type of technology impacts the data
to decision cycle, reporting, HIPAA considerations, and can improve data collection,
analysis and reporting to improve outcomes and cost. Points to consider: costs of
implementing and running the Health Care IT system, staff and consumer education, and
what impact the IT system will have on improving the CQI processes.