Many information technologies have been or could be applied to efforts to measure and improve health care quality. This article reviews the recent literature in medical informatics, quality assurance, and quality improvement to identify these and current, emerging, and potential technologies.

Information Technology Applications in Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement, Part II

A method for assessing health care technology that models the demand on the clinician's attention exerted by patients' data (diagnostic and therapeutic) can provide a means for simultaneously reducing the cost and improving the quality of health care. The attentional demand exerted by patients' data can be measured by the amount of uncertainty in the data. Uncertainty can be expressed mathematically by the concept of entropy in information theory.

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Attention, the intersection of cost and quality in health care.