Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · Jul 2015
Associations between healthcare quality and use of electronic health record functions in ambulatory care.
Contemporary electronic health records (EHRs) offer a wide variety of features, creating opportunities to influence healthcare quality in different ways. This study was designed to assess the relationship between physician use of individual EHR functions and healthcare quality. ⋯ In the early stages of the "meaningful use" program, use of specific EHR functions was associated with higher performance on healthcare process metrics.