Processes and the Electronic Health Record: Challenges and Difficulties Faced when Creating an OB Quality Dashboard.

ABSTRACT

Healthcare quality as defined by the National Academy of Medicine is "the degree to which health care services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes [1]". While building QI dashboard data quality to improve the maternal health of our patient population issues were discovered that hindered that the progress of the project. This paper will discuss the challenges and difficulties faced while creating an OB quality dashboard at a regional perinatal.