EMR Benefits: Benefits Database

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A national repository of EMR benefits data is needed to help stakeholders make more informed decisions about EMR implementation and to facilitate monitoring and corrective redesign of existing EMR implementations. A framework for reporting data should be developed that will enable meaningful comparisons, provide uniform benefit categories and standardized methods of measurement and evaluation.[1]


The authors suggest such a framework should have features similar to the one piloted by the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Clinical Information System (CIS) Benefits Task Force:

  • Demographic information about the organization
  • Measures to describe technology infrastructure
  • Measures of technology use by healthcare professionals
  • Consistent EMR benefit categories for each EMR subsystem
  • Uniform quantitative metrics for all data collected
  • Web-based data collection and reporting tools


References

  1. Thompson, D. I., Osheroff, J., Classen, D., & Sittig, D. F. (2006). A review of methods to estimate the benefits of electronic medical records in hospitals and the need for a national benefits database. Journal of healthcare information management: JHIM, 21(1), 62-68.