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  • Areas for patient improvement/safety using this electronic health record system?
  • How is Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) managed by CMS at your worksite?  Are there benchmarking opportunities?
  • The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has proposed ambulatory care measures for meeting the Institute of Medicine (IOM) priority areas for healthcare quality improvement. These prevention measures focus on many illnesses such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease prevention within the outpatient clinic setting (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). How can you see informatics help in this area?
  • What Data standards exist for better communication amongst computer systems?
  • How can the development of nursing classifications be utilized in outpatient clinical settings and integrated into the software?