“Hospitals measure quality of care, and mark improvements by conducting patient and clinical data analysis. In recent years, software applications from such vendors as IBM Corp. and Oracle Corp. have made that time- and paper-intensive process more efficient. With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) offering incentives for provable quality improvement in a few selected health measures — for example, diabetics’ A1c measurements — software for clinical data analysis is becoming a more attractive purchase for decision makers, even in an economic climate forcing hospital budget cuts, layoffs and even closures.”
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT, 9 February 2010
