全球智库信息集成服务系统

This white paper shares lessons learned from discussions with experts in fields such as health information technology (IT), clinical practice, primary care transformation, and human factors engineering, as well as with representatives of three primary care organizations that have made exemplary use of health IT for quality improvement (QI). Health IT can be an important and effective tool for primary care practices to use in their ongoing quality improvement efforts. However, significant barriers have limited the use of health IT to support QI. Despite these barriers, exemplary primary care practices and organizations have found ways to effectively use health IT to support QI efforts. These practices can offer lessons to support and increase the use of health IT to improve the quality of health care delivery and patient and population health outcomes. The white paper identifies specific health IT tools to support continuous QI, describes factors in primary care practices that promote the use of health IT for QI, presents case studies of exemplary primary care organizations, and provides cross-cutting lessons and recommendations.