The standards of health care in the prison population are expected to be equivalent for institutionalized and non-institutionalized populations. Unfortunately, medical ma [...]

This Clinical Improvement Project (CIP) was a needs assessment regarding the need for a free/low-cost medical clinic in Hardin County, Iowa. There is an increasing need t [...]

The Patient Activation Measure (PAM) evaluates patients' confidence, skills, and knowledge in managing their health. Higher activation levels are linked to better health [...]

The goal of this project is to provide a comprehensive review of published evidence regarding best practices for the patient identification (PID) process as related to el [...]

The U.S. healthcare industry is rapidly replacing older clinical systems with integrated, certified systems to meet "meaningful use" goals and secure federal funding. Whi [...]

Community-based practices are being incentivized with Medicare and Medicaid dollars to install EHR systems that include clinical decision support CDS technology. This rep [...]

The objective of this project is to assess the impact of a Breast Imaging Results And Data System (BI-RADS) and electronic health record (EHR) interface on the quality of [...]