Front Cover; Quality of Care and Information Technology; Copyright; CME Accreditation Page; PROGRAM OBJECTIVE; TARGET AUDIENCE; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; ACCREDITATION; DISCLOSURE OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST; UNAPPROVED/OFF-LABEL USE DISCLOSURE; TO ENROLL; METHOD OF PARTICIPATION; CME INQUIRIES/SPECIAL NEEDS; Contributors; CONSULTING EDITOR; EDITOR; AUTHORS; Contents; Foreword: Pediatric Safety, Quality, and Informatics; Preface: The Intersection of Safety, Quality, and Informatics: Solving Problems in Pediatrics; Population Health and Pediatric Informatics. Measurement, Standards, and Peer Benchmarking: One Hospital's JourneyElectronic Health Record-Enabled Research in Children Using the Electronic Health Record for Clinical Discovery; Quality Care and Patient Safety in the Pediatric Emergency Department; Patient Safety and Quality Metrics in Pediatric Hospital Medicine; Advanced Technology in Pediatric Intensive Care Units: Have They Improved Outcomes?; ABCs of Safety and Quality for the Pediatric Resident and Fellow; Clinical Pathways: Driving High-Reliability and High-Value Care; Pediatric Quality and Safety: A Nursing Perspective. Pediatric Quality Improvement: Practical and Scholarly ConsiderationsBig Data and Predictive Analytics: Applications in the Care of Children; Pediatric Telehealth: Opportunities and Challenges; PEDIATRIC CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA; FORTHCOMING ISSUES; June 2016; August 2016; October 2016; December 2016; RECENT ISSUES; February 2016; December 2015; October 2015; August 2015; Foreword: Pediatric Safety, Quality, and Informatics; Preface: The Intersection of Safety, Quality, and Informatics: Solving Problems in Pediatrics; REFERENCES; Population Health and Pediatric Informatics; Key points. INTRODUCTIONWHAT IS POPULATION HEALTH?; THE DIGITAL DIVIDE; ALIGNMENT OF PEDIATRIC PRACTICE WITH POPULATION HEALTH; HOW HAS PEDIATRIC CARE AND POPULATION HEALTH BEEN SUPPORTED BY HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY?; Electronic Medical Records and Clinical Decision Support; Meaningful use criteria for public health; Clinical decision support in pediatrics; Assessment and integration of clinical guidelines; prioritizing social determinants of health; Use of the electronic medical records demographic features to predict and provide medical care; Electronic Health Tools for Consumers. Population Health Information SystemsHealth Information Exchange; CHALLENGES IN USING HEALTH IT TO PROMOTE POPULATION HEALTH; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; REFERENCES; Measurement, Standards, and Peer Benchmarking: One Hospital's Journey; Key points; INTRODUCTION; HISTORY OF MEASUREMENT, STANDARDS, AND BENCHMARKING IN PEDIATRICS; SOLUTIONS FOR PATIENT SAFETY; GROUNDWORK FOR SUCCESS WITH SOLUTIONS FOR PATIENTS SAFETY; Infrastructure: Data; Organizational Structure to Effect Change; Tools for Provider Engagement with Benchmarking; Institutional Culture; RISK/BENEFIT FOR PARTICIPATING HOSPITALS.

The Guest Editor of this issue is a pediatric emergency medicine specialist and the Chief Medical Officer at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. He is very involved in the medical record and other electronic devices as safety measures. He brings his expertise and breadth of knowledge to the Pediatric Clinics of North America to assemble a stand out list of authors who have contributed articles on Pediatric Safety, Quality & Informatics. In this issue, articles are devoted to Big Data and the role of Predictive Analytics in Pediatrics; Research in Pediatric IT- the present and the future; Quality Care and Patient Safety in the pediatric emergency department; Safety & Quality metrics for Pediatric Hospital Medicine; Clinical Effectiveness Guidelines- Easy to Create but Hard to Implement; Advanced Technology in the pediatric ICUs; Measurement, Standards and Peer Benchmarking in Pediatric Safety & Quality: One hospital's journey; Clinical Informatics and its role in the care of children; Pediatric Safety & Quality: A nursing perspective; Pediatric Telehealth: opportunities and challenges; and Fundamentals of Quality Improvement: How to do pediatric QI research.