AHRQ's mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. The agency has focused its health IT activities on the following three goals: [..]

A commonly observed condition among physicians overwhelmed with large numbers of clinically insignificant alerts, thus causing them to "tune out" and potentially miss an important dr [..]

An injury resulting from the use of a drug.

A tool that can be used to graphically classify all potential root causes.

Computer tools or applications to assist physicians in clinical decisions by providing evidence-based knowledge in the context of patient-specific data. Typically a decision support system responds to [..]

A computer application that allows a physician’s orders for diagnostic and treatment services (such as medications, laboratory, and other tests) to be entered electronically, instead of being record [..]

An organization or individual who embraces new technology or administrative practices before others typically do.

A real-time patient health record with access to evidence-based decision-support tools that can be used to aid clinicians in decision making. The EHR can automate and streamline a clinician's [..]

A type of computer technology whereby physicians use handheld or personal computer devices to review drug and formulary coverage and to transmit prescriptions to a printer or to a local pharmacy. E-pr [..]

A widely-used risk assessment technique for identifying, prioritizing and fixing potential system failures before an adverse event actually occurs. Because FMEA is prospective — rather than retrospect [..]