The Association between eHealth Capabilities and the Quality and Safety of Health Care in the Netherlands: Comparison of HIMSS Analytics EMRAM data with Elsevier's 'The Best Hospitals' data.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that advanced electronic medical record (EMR) capabilities are associated with better quality and safety of hospital care.

Methods And Findings: We used data from the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM(SM)) to measure the adoption and use of information technology in Dutch hospitals. To measure the quality and safety of healthcare in Dutch Hospitals we used select data from the publicly available basic set and the safety set of the Health Care Inspectorate (IGZ) and the Dutch Health Care Transparency Program 'Zichtbare Zorg' (ZIZO) program.