Health Information Technology Interoperability

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Journal Article

What It Will Take to Achieve the As-Yet-Unfulfilled Promises of Health Information Technology — Jan 1, 2013

HIT's disappointing performance primarily stems from sluggish adoption of health IT systems, systems that are not interoperable or easy to use, and failure of providers and institutions to do their part by reengineering care processes.

Report

A Prototype Knowledge-Sharing Service for Clinical Decision Support Artifacts — May 17, 2012

This report describes the development of 22 clinical decision support (CDS) artifacts as part of the Advancing Clinical Decision Support effort to accelerate the effective use of CDS interventions and facilitate evidence-based clinical practice.

Journal Article

Simulation Suggests That Medical Group Mergers Won't Undermine the Potential Utility of Health Information Exchanges — Mar 1, 2012

Federal and state agencies are investing substantial resources in the creation of community health information exchanges, which are consortia that enable independent health care organizations to exchange clinical data.

Project

Online Guide Helps Health Organizations Adopt Electronic Health Records — Dec 14, 2011

A new online tool, called the "Unintended Consequences Guide," is available from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help hospitals and other health care organizations anticipate, avoid, and address problems that can occur when adopting and using electronic health records.

Report

How Should Drugs Be Identified in Electronic Prescribing Systems? — Jul 20, 2011

The set of computer-interpretable identifiers currently used in electronic prescribing does not support the specific needs of prescribers and pharmacists. RxNorm, a rigorously derived system of drug identifiers that more accurately reflect the prescriber's intent, has potential to improve e-prescribing transactions.

Research Brief

How Should Drugs be Identified in Electronic Prescribing Systems? — Jul 20, 2011

RxNorm has potential to improve how medications are represented in e-prescribing transactions.

Report

Influences on the Adoption of Multifactor Authentication — Apr 15, 2011

Explores the adoption of multifactor authentication (MFA) -- which combines something you know (e.g., a PIN), something you have (e.g., a token), and/or something you are (e.g., a fingerprint) -- to identify users to a computer system.

Research Brief

Identity Crisis? Approaches to Patient Identification in a National Health Information Network — Oct 8, 2008

This research brief summarizes an analysis and comparison of two methods of patient identification -- statistical matching and unique patient identifier -- on error rates, operational efficiency, costs, and privacy and security issues.

Report

The State and Pattern of Health Information Technology Adoption — Sep 12, 2005

Estimates the current level and pattern of Healthcare Information Technology adoption in different types of healthcare organizations, and evaluates factors that affect this diffusion process.

Journal Article

Pharmacy, Facsimile, and Cyberspace: An Examination of Legal Frameworks for Electronic Prescribing — Jan 1, 2002

Are recent laws in conflict with the technological trend toward wireless transfer of physician and patient-specific health information, and will they present overwhelming barriers to the widespread use of e-prescribing?

Journal Article

The Urge to Merge: Linking Vital Statistics Records and Medicaid Claims — Oct 1, 1994

This paper describes a procedure used to link Medicaid claims data to California vital statistics records for very low birthweight infants.

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