Prospects for Care Coordination Measurement Using Electronic Data Sources

摘要

This report presents an assessment of the potential for measuring care coordination processes using data from electronic data sources, in particular from existing and emerging health information technology (IT) systems such as electronic health records (EHR), health information exchanges (HIE), and all-payer claims databases (APCD). This assessment relies on background research and input from individual and group discussions with a panel of informants with expertise in health IT systems development and use, HIEs, EHRs, APCDs, insurance plans, health data standards, and quality measurement. This effort did not aim to develop new measures of care coordination, but to synthesize the background relevant to such future work.