QOPI, EHRs, and Quality Measures

QOPI International, or How to Globalize Quality

Tools for measuring and improving the quality of oncology care: the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) and the QOPI certification program.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI®) is a voluntary program designed to assess and improve processes of care in oncology practices. QOPI measures are evidenced-based and consensus-based measures that are derived from published research studies, peer-reviewed guidelines, and expert consensus. The mission of QOPI is to provide a means by wh...

Analysis of EHRs for research, quality management and health politics

Lifelong electronic health records can supply valuable information for research, quality management and health politics in addition to supporting treatment of patients. Based on experiences with scientific data analysis in a university hospital environment, requirements on cross-institutional analysis of electronic health records in a healthcare system are discussed. The concept of archetypes c...

Viewpoint Quality: Measures and Applications

Several methods that use the notion of viewpoint quality have been recently introduced in different areas of computer graphics, such as scene understanding, exploration of virtual worlds, radiosity and global illumination, image-based rendering and modelling. In this paper, we analyze the behavior of three different viewpoint quality measures. The first one is a heuristic measure, the second on...

MetaStar aids physicians in adoption and use of EHRs for quality improvement.