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Statewide Telehealth Center Established

The California Center for Connected Health will coordinate strategy and planning for statewide telehealth adoption and use. Sandra Shewry will lead the multimillion-dollar effort to bring better health care to underserved areas.

Better Nursing Through Technology

Nurses prefer to work in hospitals where safety, quality, and their own job satisfaction are top priorities. This report examines how technology can improve both nurses' work environment and the level of care they provide.

Consumer Information

Friday, November 14, 2008

AHRQ Launches Quality Measure Database for Health Professionals

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched a new Web site to provide health care professionals with the measures used by federal agencies under HHS for reporting, payment and quality improvement, Modern Healthcare reports.

According to AHRQ, health care professionals can use the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse to help them in their quality policy and implementation initiatives.

The database includes measure sets from the:

  • Administration on Aging;
  • AHRQ;
  • CDC;
  • CMS;
  • Indian Health;
  • NIH;
  • Office of Public Health and Science; and
  • Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (DerGurahian, Modern Healthcare, 11/13).


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