Fierce Health Technology September 14, 2020
You can’t manage what you can’t measure. That’s why quality measurement is so important in healthcare.
Yet for many providers, quality measurement has become an onerous process involving people, paper, numerous vendors and a variety of electronic health record (EHR) software.
U.S. healthcare watched as various industries across the globe went through digital transformations for everything from customer service to personal finance to even ordering groceries. Some processes within healthcare itself have undergone magnificent digital transformations, as EHR use became de rigeur and imaging technologies evolved—at warp speed—from film to sharp, diagnostic-quality digital files that can be accessed online from any device.
Now, as more data modalities in the industry turn digital, it’s time for healthcare quality measurement to get...