2012-05-24T14:56:47Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/health-information-technology-interoperability.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1207.html May 17, 2012 May 17, 2012

This report, by researchers from Partners HealthCare and the RAND Corporation, primarily describes the work associated with Task 4.8 of the Advancing Clinical Decision Support effort, a project intended to accelerate the effective use of computer-based clinical decision support (CDS) interventions to facilitate evidence-based clinical practice. Twenty-two CDS artifacts and 16 value sets were developed that cover the five CDS intervention types.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120070.html Mar 1, 2012 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.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/12/14.html Dec 14, 2011 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR941.html Jul 20, 2011 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9601.html Jul 20, 2011 Jul 20, 2011

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

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR937.html Apr 15, 2011 Apr 15, 2011

Passwords are proving less and less capable of protecting computer systems from abuse. 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) — is increasingly being required. This report investigates why organizations choose to adopt or not adopt MFA — and where they choose to use it.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9570.html Feb 9, 2011 Feb 9, 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9393.html Oct 8, 2008 Oct 8, 2008

<p>This research brief summarizes an analysis and comparison of two methods of patient identification &mdash; statistical matching and unique patient identifier &mdash; on error rates, operational efficiency, costs, and privacy and security issues.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG409.html Sep 12, 2005 Sep 12, 2005

<p>Helps focus the policy agenda for incentives to speed Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) adoption by estimating the current level and pattern of HIT adoption in the different types of healthcare organizations, according to information the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)-Dorenfest database, and evaluates factors that affect this diffusion process, using existing empirical studies and regression analysis.</p>

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<em>Associate Information Scientist</em><br>Ph.D. in biomedical informatics, University of Utah; M.S. in biostatistics, University of Utah; B.S. in information systems, Brigham Young University