title: Leveraging information technology for quality improvement.
abstract: The information technology that is absolutely essential to gather, analyze, manipulate, and report on treatment approaches, practice patterns, and clinical outcomes remains in the background, but it is absolutely key to success in virtually every effort at health care quality improvement.
authors.affiliation: Carondelet St. Joseph's Hospital, Tucson, AZ, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Heller
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States