tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852684919029181544.post67957096627441250..comments2024-03-21T22:09:25.626-07:00Comments on Advanced Health Information Exchange Resources: EHR Incentives Likely to Improve QualityAhierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13398190978662246852noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852684919029181544.post-58831537808503573112011-09-05T22:44:33.469-07:002011-09-05T22:44:33.469-07:00This is correlation not causation, though. The mor...This is correlation not causation, though. The more advanced medical practices will adopt EHR. And of course they will have better outcomes for the same reason they adopted EHR: they are better practices! We might also find that the practices that adopted various other trends in the past also had better outcomes, even when those trends became discredited, again for the same reason.<br /><br />If you really want to test a hypothesis you have to disprove it. You can't say "If A then B, B therefore A". C may cause B also. But we can say "If not B then not A." So if our thesis is that EHR improves quality, we must see if there are cases of not having quality that still have EHR. That would disprove our thesis that it's EHR that raises quality.<br /><br />And my gut feeling is this will happen, b/c it's never really the tool, but how it's used that matters. This leads me to the conclusion that we'll need to have EHR managed by some major players if it's really going to work right b/c otherwise it will get screwed up. Thoughts?Alec Permisonhttp://dxsocial.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852684919029181544.post-91596534874435532452011-08-31T20:24:22.979-07:002011-08-31T20:24:22.979-07:00Thanks John. I am thrilled that we are starting to...Thanks John. I am thrilled that we are starting to see some data which supports our contention that EHRs can improve quality. :-)Ahierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13398190978662246852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852684919029181544.post-15494063446234622132011-08-31T18:25:59.031-07:002011-08-31T18:25:59.031-07:00Brian,
Thanks for featuring this Cleveland initiat...Brian,<br />Thanks for featuring this Cleveland initiative. A major milestone in the use of EMRs.John Sharphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15882784286292883106noreply@blogger.com