Quality is a vital component to healthcare, and effective use of Health IT can vastly improve quality and outcomes. However the effective use of Health IT depends on many things, including process and workflow change. EHRs can improve quality by making the information accessible and by providing reminders to clinicians for such things as proper medication use or ordering preventive screening tests. This video features subject matter experts who discuss tools and techniques to use EHRs to improve healthcare quality.

Key Words/Topics: team approach, process redesign, quality, clinical decision support, efficiency

This material was developed by The University of Alabama at Birmingham, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under award number 1U24OC000023