Information Management and Healthcare Quality - A National Summit

Background

NQF convened, along with the Institute of Medicine, a National Summit on Information Technology and Healthcare Quality in March 2002. This program focused on:

1. The state of the nation’s health information infrastructure.
2. Barriers to achieving the timely flow of necessary health information across the continuum of care.
3. Actions needed to adopt the laws, standards, business practices and technologies necessary to create a state-of-the-art national health information infrastructure.