Robert S. Rudin

Overview

Commentary

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  How Smartphone Apps Could Help Keep Health Records Accurate

  Electronic health records have helped streamline record keeping but providers aren't always able to reliably pull together records for the same patient from different hospitals, clinics, and doctor's offices. The growing use of smartphones offers a promising opportunity to improve record matching.

  Oct 4, 2018 TechCrunch

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  The Little Exchange That Could...Transform the U.S. Health Care System

  As Congress continues to think about whether and how to support the development of Health Information Exchanges, it should consider the commitment required to bring a mature statewide or national network of HIEs into practice. It should prioritize the evaluation of government-funded HIEs, so that research can help inform and foster return on investment for scarce taxpayer dollars.

  Jan 28, 2015 The Health Care Blog

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  How Electronic Health Records Can Lead to Care Coordination

  Inadequate care coordination is a major problem in health care delivery, but information technology is emerging as an important tool for enhancing coordination and, ultimately, improving the delivery of care, writes Robert Rudin.

  Aug 13, 2013 The RAND Blog

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  Unraveling the IT Productivity Paradox—Lessons for Health Care

  Although health care organizations have favorable characteristics that can maximize IT's benefits, the reengineering of health care delivery is only beginning, write Spencer Jones, Paul Heaton, Robert Rudin, and Eric Schneider.

  Jun 14, 2012 New England Journal of Medicine

Publications

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  Level of Agreement on Health Information Technology Adoption and Use in Survey Data: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Ambulatory Clinics in 1 US State

  Analyses of HIT survey findings should take into consideration the validity of the data used to develop estimates of prevalence and use.

  Mar 22, 2019

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  Advancing a Nationwide Patient Matching Strategy

  A nationwide strategy for improved patient matching would enable hospitals, technology developers, and the broader health care ecosystem to better link patients to their records to improve care coordination and reduce costs.

  Aug 22, 2018

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  Defining and Evaluating Patient-Empowered Approaches to Improving Record Matching

  This study reviews possible patient-empowered approaches to medical record matching and recommends for further development and pilot testing a three-stage solution that uses mobile phones and app-based functionality.

  Aug 22, 2018

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  Core Components for a Clinically Integrated mHealth App for Asthma Symptom Monitoring

  Smartphone-based health apps - using patient reported outcomes - can help asthma patients monitor symptoms between doctor visits.

  Dec 15, 2017

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  The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist: Part of the Solution

  Efforts to create high-functioning primary care teams should take advantage of the knowledge and skills of clinical pharmacy specialists

  Apr 19, 2017

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  Leveraging Telehealth to Bring Volunteer Physicians Into Underserved Communities

  Organizations that use telehealth to address safety net clinic needs by recruiting retired or semi-retired doctor volunteers can help improve access to physicians in underserved areas while enriching the professional lives of clinicians.

  Mar 16, 2017

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  Lessons Learned from the MAVEN Project Pilot: Using Physician Volunteers to Increase Access to Care via Telehealth

  The Medical Alumni Volunteer Expert Network (MAVEN) Project created a corps of experienced volunteer physicians to provide telehealth consults to providers in safety-net clinics. This evaluation of the program can inform quality-improvement efforts.

  Dec 9, 2016

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  Identifying and Coordinating Care for Complex Patients: Findings from the Leading Edge of Analytics and Health Information Technology

  Analytics and HIT are currently being used in innovative ways to coordinate care for complex patients, but evidence of their effectiveness is lacking and important foundational work is still needed.

  Sep 19, 2016

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  Journal Article

  Accelerating Innovation in Health IT

  Efforts to accelerate the innovation of health information technology (IT) products need long-term collaboration between developers and users, transformation of care processes in tandem with IT tools, and development of new funding models.

  Sep 19, 2016

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  National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet) Phase I: Final Evaluation Report

  PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, seeks to conduct clinical trials and observational research quickly and at low cost. This report contains the results of a formative evaluation of PCORnet's implementation phase.

  Dec 31, 2015

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  Resources and Capabilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Provide Timely and Accessible Care to Veterans

  The Department of Veterans Affairs health care system, with broad resources and capabilities, provides timely and high-quality care to most, but not all, patients. Meeting veterans' needs over the next five years will require additional capacity.

  Dec 31, 2015

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  Harnessing Private-Sector Innovation to Improve Health Insurance Exchanges

  In this paper, analysts consider privately facilitated health insurance exchanges to address some challenges and deepen the impact of health care reform. In this model, the private sector assumes responsibility for peripheral exchange functions.

  Nov 6, 2015

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  Improving Hospital Efficiency Through Data-Driven Management: A Case Study of Health First, Florida

  This report presents a case study of how one health system addressed resource challenges by using Lean thinking (focusing on process improvement, affecting both structural components and operational processes) enabled by information technology.

  Oct 22, 2015

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  Paying for Telemedicine

  Telemedicine offers the potential for better care, lower costs, and increased convenience. Expanding existing fee-for-service payment models to include telemedicine may lead to its overuse.

  Dec 23, 2014

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  Usage and Effect of Health Information Exchange: A Systematic Review

  Health information exchange (HIE) is increasing in the United States, and it is incentivized by government policies. The authors systematically review and evaluate evidence of the use and effect of HIE on clinical care.

  Dec 3, 2014

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  Patient Safety in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Current Status and Opportunities for Improvement

  In a RAND study about the landscape of patient safety in Massachusetts, researchers interviewed expert observers (patients, health care leaders, and others) about progress to date and future opportunities to produce safer patient care.

  Dec 2, 2014

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  Continuity of Care and the Cost of Treating Chronic Disease

  Modest improvements in continuity of care correlate with sizable reductions in service use, complications, and costs for Medicare patients with congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

  Jul 16, 2014

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  Promoting Patient Safety Through Effective Health Information Technology Risk Management

  The research team worked with 11 hospitals and ambulatory practices to evaluate a process improvement strategy and tools developed to help health care organizations diagnose, monitor, and mitigate health information technology-related safety risks.

  Jul 15, 2014

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  Continuity and the Costs of Care for Chronic Disease

  Modest differences in care continuity for Medicare beneficiaries are associated with sizable differences in costs, use, and complications.

  Mar 17, 2014

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  Let the Left Hand Know What the Right Is Doing: A Vision for Care Coordination and Electronic Health Records

  Using a simple framework, we describe a vision of information technology capabilities that could substantially improve four care coordination activities: identifying collaborators, contacting collaborators, collaborating, and monitoring.

  2014

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  The Value of Health Information Technology: Filling the Knowledge Gap

  Despite rapid growth in the rate of adoption of health information technology, and in the volume of evaluation studies, the existing knowledge base for the value of health IT is not advancing at a similar rate.

  2014

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  Health Information Technology: An Updated Systematic Review with a Focus on Meaningful Use

  Incentives offered by the U.S. government have spurred marked increases in use of health information technology (IT).

  2014

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  Health Information Technology Adoption Measurement Framework: Overall Guidance for HCIA Awardees

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)/Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) requested that RAND assist their HCIA Awardees in developing health information technology (HIT) adoption measures.

  2013

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  Measuring Care Continuity: A Comparison of Claims-Based Methods

  Assessing care continuity is important in evaluating the impact of health care reform and changes to health care delivery.

  2013

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  Unraveling the IT Productivity Paradox -- Lessons for Health Care

  Productivity gains that can be achieved by widely adopting health information technology are likely to come from the reengineering of health care and may require new measurement tools to accurately gauge their impact.

  Jun 14, 2012

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  Simulation Suggests That Medical Group Mergers Won't Undermine the Potential Utility of Health Information Exchanges

  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.

  Mar 1, 2012

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  Care Transitions as Opportunities for Clinicians to Use Data Exchange Service: How Often Do They Occur?

  The electronic exchange of health information among healthcare providers has the potential to produce enormous clinical benefits and financial savings, although realizing that potential will be challenging.

  Nov 1, 2011

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  Why Clinicians Use or Don't Use Health Information Exchange

  The ED is one important place where an HIE may have an impact on patient care because many emergency patients are unfamiliar to ED facilities and important clinical information is often missing.

  Jul 1, 2011

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  What Affects Clinicians' Usage of Health Information Exchange?

  Clinicians, EHR and HIE product vendors and trainers should work toward integrating HIE into clinical workflows.

  2011

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  The Litmus Test for Health Information Exchange Success: Will Small Practices Participate?

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

  Apr 1, 2010

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  Assessing the Value of Laboratory Electronic Data Interchange in the Department of Veterans Affairs

  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.

  2010

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  Liability Coverage for Regional Health Information Organizations: Lessons from the AHRQ-funded State Regional Demonstration Projects in Health Information Technology and Other Community Efforts

  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).

  Jun 1, 2009

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  Understanding the Decisions and Values of Stakeholders in Health Information Exchanges: Experiences from Massachusetts

  The authors studied how health information exchange systems are established by examining the decisions of key stakeholders participating in a health information exchange pilot project in 3 Massachusetts communities.

  May 1, 2009