Health Information Technology
2011
The Benefits of Health Information Technology: A Review of the Recent Literature Shows Predominantly Positive Results — 2011
Studies are needed that document the specific challenges of implementing health information technology and how these challenges might be addressed.
Can Health Care Information Technology Save Babies? — 2011
Using a 12-year county-level panel, this study found that a 10 percent increase in births that occur in hospitals with electronic medical records reduces neonatal mortality by 16 deaths per 100,000 live births.
Challenges to Value-Enhancing Innovation in Health Care Delivery: Commonalities and Contrasts with Innovation in Drugs and Devices — 2011
Discusses obstacles to steering innovation in health care toward activities that are worth their social costs and away from other innovative activities and considers drugs, devices, and delivery, with particular attention to delivery.
Clinical Decision Support and Malpractice Risk — 2011
Clinical decision support (CDS) refers to electronic technology used to enhance clinical decision making. The basic challenge for policymakers interested in promoting adoption of CDS is to ensure that liability concerns do not derail the clinical value of new CDS technology.
Developing a Natural Language Processing Application for Measuring the Quality of Colonoscopy Procedures — 2011
The authors develop a natural language processing (NLP) application to measure colonoscopy quality.
Encryption and the Loss of Patient Data — 2011
Encryption is seen as a way to prevent malicious use of patient data, but there is no empirical evidence that it does.
The ER, 50 Years on — 2011
The quickest way to assess the strength of a community's hospital systems is to spend a few hours in the emergency department.
Evaluation of RxNorm in Ambulatory Electronic Prescribing — 2011
Through laboratory research and pilot testing, the authors evaluated RxNorm's potential to improve how medications are represented in electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) transactions.
Evaluation of the NCPDP Structured and Codified Sig Format for E-Prescriptions — 2011
This paper reports an assessment of how well the structure and code sets specified in the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs Structured and Codified Sig Format represent ambulatory electronic prescriptions.
Growing Internet Use May Help Explain the Rise in Prescription Drug Abuse in the United States — 2011
Online prescription drug sales require better oversight: For every 10 percent increase in high-speed Internet use at the state level, associated treatment facility admissions for prescription drug abuse rose by 1 percent.
Guide to Reducing Unintended Consequences of Electronic Health Records — 2011
The Guide to Reducing Unintended Consequences of Electronic Health Records is an online resource designed to help an organization anticipate, avoid, and address problems that can occur when implementing and using an electronic health record (EHR).
Health Information Management and Perceptions of the Quality of Care for Children with Tracheotomy: A Qualitative Study — 2011
This study investigated perceptions and experiences of parents and providers about health information management, care planning and coordination for children with tracheotomy, and strategies to improve health information management for these children.
How Should Drugs be Identified in Electronic Prescribing Systems? — 2011
RxNorm has potential to improve how medications are represented in e-prescribing transactions.
Meaningful Use of Electronic Prescribing in 5 Exemplar Primary Care Practices — 2011
Widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in ambulatory care will require practice transformation efforts that focus on work process redesign while being attentive to effects on patient and pharmacy involvement in prescribing.
More Than Four in Five Office-Based Physicians Could Qualify for Federal Electronic Health Record Incentives — 2011
Although most physicians qualify for federal incentives to promote adoption of electronic health records, eligibility varies substantially by specialty and practice size.
Today's 'Meaningful Use' Standard for Medication Orders by Hospitals May Save Few Lives; Later Stages May Do More — 2011
Current federal standards for hospital "meaningful use" of health information technology--which requires electronic medication orders for 30 percent of eligible patients--are probably too low to reduce deaths from heart failure and heart attack among hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries.
Will Adoption of Electronic Health Records Improve Quality in U.S. Hospitals? — 2011
Shares findings on the potential effects of electronic health records (EHRs) on health care quality, based on analysis of extensive data from 2003 and 2006 on EHR adoption, hospital characteristics, and hospital quality in nearly 2,100 hospitals.
2010
Electronic Health Record Adoption and Quality Improvement in US Hospitals — 2010
Existing quality measures may not capture the effect of electronic health records or hospital quality.
Emergency Department Chief Complaint and Diagnosis Data to Detect Influenza-Like Illness with an Electronic Medical Record — 2010
Compared with detection based on the presenting patient's chief complaint, data from an emergency room diagnosis can provide valuable information about influenza-like illness despite a potential delay in detection.
Evaluation of RxNorm for Representing Ambulatory Prescriptions — 2010
RxNorm provides concepts covering nearly all ambulatory e-prescriptions but could be improved by making it possible to select the most-specific concepts within broader concepts.
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