Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC)
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Purpose
The Taconic IPA, a 2,500 physician independent practice association (IPA) located in Fishkill, New York (NY), is involved in an information technology project to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare in the region. Over the past three years, the organization has worked with area hospitals and laboratories to create a community wide electronic data exchange. Currently, the Taconic IPA is in the midst of implementing a full electronic health record in some practices and e-prescribing in other practices. The purpose is to study the impact of an electronic health record on safety and quality measures.
| Condition | Intervention |
|---|---|
|
Medication Errors |
Device: Electronic Medical Record |
| Study Type: | Interventional |
| Study Design: | Allocation: Non-Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety Study Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Prevention |
| Official Title: | Transforming Healthcare Quality Through I.T. |
- Medication errors
- Near misses
- Adverse drug events
- Quality measures
| Estimated Enrollment: | 9000 |
| Study Start Date: | October 2004 |
| Estimated Study Completion Date: | September 2007 |
We propose to measure differences in patient safety and quality measures among three groups: the control group consisting of physicians with paper-based office practices, a group of physicians using the clinical messaging system and electronic prescribing, and a group of physicians using the EMR and electronic prescribing.
We plan to introduce a vendor based electronic prescribing system by July 2005. This system will be offered to all physicians using clinical messaging and will be integrated with the EMR system. The system will have clinical decision support, such as checks for drug-drug interactions.
Our evaluation will measure differences in rates of medication errors and quality measures amongst these three groups. We will use a study design of a pre-post evaluation with a comparison control group. We will detect medical errors by prescription and chart review. We will determine compliance with quality measures through a combination of electronic data and chart review.
Eligibility| Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
| Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Physicians' prescriptions and medical records in office practices enrolled in the study
Exclusion Criteria:
- Other physicians not enrolled in the study
Contacts and Locations| Contact: A. John Blair, MD | (845)897-6359 | jblair@taconicipa.com |
| Contact: Laura Cosh | (845)298-9137 | lcosh@taconicipa.com |
| United States, New York | |
| Taconic IPA | Recruiting |
| Fishkill, New York, United States, 12524 | |
| Principal Investigator: A. John Blair, MD | |
| Principal Investigator: | A. John Blair, MD | Taconic IPA |
| Principal Investigator: | Rainu Kaushal, MD | Partners Health Care |
More Information
No publications provided by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00225563 History of Changes |
| Other Study ID Numbers: | 7 UC1 HS015316-02 |
| Study First Received: | September 22, 2005 |
| Last Updated: | June 12, 2007 |
| Health Authority: | United States: Federal Government |
Keywords provided by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ):
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Electronic medical records Electronic prescribing Quality measures |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 21, 2013