Health Information Technology

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Health information technology, electronic medical records, and electronic prescriptions are but three examples of how technology is changing the health care sector. RAND research has explored many facets of health information technology and advised policymakers and practitioners on best practices for cost savings and improved patient outcomes.

Research conducted by: RAND Health; RAND Europe

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News Release

Electronic Medical Records Not Always Linked to Better Care in Hospitals — Dec 23, 2010

Use of electronic health records by hospitals across the United States has had only a limited effect on improving the quality of medical care.

Journal Article

Electronic Medical Records Not Always Linked to Better Care in Hospitals — Dec 23, 2010

Use of electronic health records by hospitals across the United States has had only a limited effect on improving the quality of medical care.

Journal Article

Web-based Self-Triage of Influenza-Like Illness During the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic — Sep 1, 2010

A RAND team designed a web-based support tool using clinical algorithms to help minimally trained health care workers and laypeople make informed decisions about care-seeking for influenza-like illness.

Journal Article

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Laying the Infrastructure for National Health Reform — Jun 1, 2010

This article discusses the range of health information technology initiatives included in the 2009 economic stimulus legislation that collectively are known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) initiative; these include proposed regulations on

Report

Improving the Quality and Cost of Healthcare Delivery: The Potential of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology — May 21, 2010

Investigates whether an upcoming class of health information technology can be used to address currently outstanding issues in the quality and cost of healthcare delivery.

Journal Article

The Litmus Test for Health Information Exchange Success: Will Small Practices Participate? — Apr 1, 2010

The movement to establish widespread health information exchange (HIE) in the United States has thus far shown mixed results.

Journal Article

Adoption and Use of Stand-Alone Electronic Prescribing in a Health Plan-Sponsored Initiative — Mar 1, 2010

Certain categories of physicians may need more tailored incentives to adopt SEP.

Journal Article

Assessing the Value of Laboratory Electronic Data Interchange in the Department of Veterans Affairs — Jan 1, 2010

We modeled the adoption, costs and monetezied benefits of the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA's) internally developed Laboratory Electronic Data Interchange (LEDI) application from 2001-2007.

Journal Article

Emergency Department Chief Complaint and Diagnosis Data to Detect Influenza-Like Illness with an Electronic Medical Record — Jan 1, 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.

Journal Article

Evaluation of RxNorm for Representing Ambulatory Prescriptions — Jan 1, 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.

Journal Article

Reducing Disparities and Improving Quality: Understanding the Needs of Small Primary Care Practices — Jan 1, 2010

Small primary care practices have limited staff and fewer resources than larger group practices, making it difficult to improve care for minority patients on their own. Other challenges include language barriers and lack of information systems.

Research Brief

Electronic Health Records are Associated with Higher Quality in Primary Care Practices — Oct 27, 2009

Demonstrating a link between use of electronic health records in community-based primary care practices and higher-quality care, this study encourages prioritization of such technologies and their advanced functionalities.

Report

Issues in "Meaningful Use" of Health Information Technology for Psychiatry and Behavioral Health — Oct 22, 2009

Testimony presented before the Health Information Technology Policy Committee of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on October 27, 2009.

Report

Increase Health Information Technology Adoption and Connectivity — Oct 12, 2009

This document explores how increased health information technology (HIT) adoption and connectivity would affect health system performance along nine dimensions.

News Release

Electronic Health Records Linked to Improved Quality in Primary Care Practices — Oct 5, 2009

Routine use of electronic health records may improve the quality of care provided in community-based primary care practices more than other common strategies intended to raise the quality of medical care.

Journal Article

Electronic Health Records Linked to Improved Quality in Primary Care Practices — Oct 5, 2009

Routine use of electronic health records may improve the quality of care provided in community-based primary care practices more than other common strategies intended to raise the quality of medical care.

Journal Article

Perceptions of Standards-Based Electronic Prescribing Systems as Implemented in Outpatient Primary Care: A Physician Survey — Jul 15, 2009

Compare the experiences of e-prescribing users and non-users regarding prescription safety and workload and to assess the use of information from two e-prescribing standards (for medication history and formulary and benefit information), as

Journal Article

Are Electronic Health Records Ready for Genomic Medicine? — Jul 1, 2009

The goal of this project was to assess genetic/genomic content in electronic health records.

Journal Article

Liability Coverage for Regional Health Information Organizations: Lessons from the AHRQ-Funded State Regional Demonstration Projects in Health Information Technology and Other Community Efforts — Jun 1, 2009

This report will share findings from the field on how eight regional health information organizations (RHIOs) have navigated various issues and challenges associated with liability insurance for health information exchange (HIE).

Journal Article

Understanding the Decisions and Values of Stakeholders in Health Information Exchanges: Experiences from Massachusetts — May 1, 2009

We studied how health information exchange systems are established by examining the decisions of key stakeholders (health care providers) participating in a health information exchange pilot project in 3 Massachusetts communities.

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