Overview

Through the Doctor’s Office Quality-Information Technology (DOQ-IT) project, The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence (CCME) is working with small to medium sized, primary care physician practices (one to eight doctors per practice) serving a Medicare population to support the adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs). EHRs are becoming increasingly prevalent in both the public and private healthcare sectors in North Carolina and across the nation, and are recognized as beneficial by the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American College of Physicians. They are pivotal to improvement in the areas of quality of care, patient safety, decision support, access to patient information, practice efficiency, and patient-clinician communication.

What are the benefits of participating in DOQ-IT?

Receive objective information from experts about EHR selection, price negotiation, and implementation.
Analyze practice needs, readiness to adopt an EHR, how to maximize the use of an EHR, and potential challenges associated with implementation.
Assess current practice workflow and craft revised strategies to create efficiencies and capitalize on the opportunities offered by an EHR.
Obtain valuable insight and support from peers engaged in EHR implementation.
Receive complementary support from CCME (e-mail discussion lists, web-based conferences) in addition to that provided by the EHR vendor.
Improve chronic care and preventive clinical outcomes.
Enhance patient safety.

For more information about DOQ-IT, contact us at DOQIT@ncqio.sdps.org.