We studied the information flow in an emergency department (ED) to understand how patient information was received and shared between providers and how information from a computerized ambulatory system, which was not well-integrated with the hospital information system at that time, could be used. The study was aimed at identifying possible methods that could push information from the ambulator...

BACKGROUND The most widely used performance measure for asthma, the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS), has been criticized because the delay between classification (year 1) and assessment of medication dispensing (year 2) may produce a "misalignment" and weaken the validity of the measure. OBJECTIVE To examine whether a previously observed association between the HEDIS per...

This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, in the interest of information exchange. The United States Government assumes no liability for its contents or use thereof. The recent development of high-fi delity U.S. airspace encounter models at Lincoln Laboratory has motivated a simulation study of the Traffi c Alert an...