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Health Information Technology Interoperability

Journal Article
Why APIs? Anticipated Value, Barriers, and Opportunities for Standards-Based Application Programming Interfaces in Healthcare: Perspectives of US Thought Leaders
To better understand the landscape of application programming interface (API) use cases, we interviewed U.S. thought leaders involved in developing and implementing standard-based APIs.
Jan 27, 2023
Journal Article
The Issues of Interoperability and Data Connectedness for Public Health
The article summarizes some of the challenges around data sharing and reuse and identifies where the technology and data sectors can contribute to fill current gaps to promote interoperability and data stewardship.
Sep 14, 2022
Journal Article
Mixed-methods Study of Integration of Housing and Medical Data Systems for Enhanced Service Coordination of People with HIV
Improving service coordination through integrated data systems requires a number of complex steps at the organizational, technical, end user, and educational levels. Successful integration includes extensive need for human engagement, training, and buy-in, as well as allowing for sufficient time to complete all steps.
Apr 21, 2020
Report
Reuse of health data by the European pharmaceutical industry: Current practice and implications for the future
Health data is re-used for a variety of reasons by pharmaceutical companies across the R&D pathway. RAND Europe suggests seven ways which might help create a sustainable ecosystem in which health data is reused effectively.
Nov 12, 2019
Commentary
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
News Release
Mobile Phones and Smartphone Apps Hold Promise for Allowing Patient Participation in Improving Medical Record Matching
Mobile phones and smartphone apps offer a promising approach to ensure that an individual's medical records when shared between different health care providers are matched correctly.
Aug 22, 2018
Report
Patients Could Help Improve Record Matching
When health providers exchange medical records, the success rate can be as low as 50 percent. The ubiquity of mobile phones offers a promising opportunity to create a patient-empowered system to confirm identities that would allow hospitals and other providers to match records more accurately.
Aug 22, 2018
Report
Transforming Urgent and Emergency Care and the Vanguard Initiative: Learning from Evaluation of the Southern Cluster
Three Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) vanguards, aiming to improve UEC services, have progressed, driven by funding, status, leadership and support for joint working. Public engagement, workforce and data interoperability challenges need addressing.
Oct 16, 2017
Dissertation
Role of Data in Improving Care within a Health System: A Case Study of the Australian Health System
This study aims to understand how organizational context and interfaces affect the collection, management, and use of data for care improvement (CI).
Aug 2, 2017
Journal Article
Using the Electronic Health Record to Understand and Minimize Overuse
Electronic health records represent a key opportunity to address overuse and the high costs of care and to realize benefit from one of the country's major health care investments.
Jul 19, 2017
Journal Article
Beyond Medication Reconciliation: The Correct Medication List
Creating and maintaining a correct medication list for every patient could potentially improve outcomes more than other quality improvement activities.
May 30, 2017
Report
Understanding value in health data ecosystems: A review of current evidence and ways forward
The potential of health data to improve health R&D, innovation, healthcare delivery, and health systems is substantial. Realising the benefits of health data will require a supportive health data ecosystem and addressing associated challenges.
Apr 27, 2017
Commentary
Toward a Learning Behavioral Health Care System
New technologies for capturing and sharing data have begun to transform the way providers practice medicine in the United States. Expanding these technologies to behavioral health care could enhance the delivery of services and improve outcomes for millions of Americans.
Dec 20, 2016
Research Brief
Engineering a Roadmap for Health Information Technology in Chile
RAND developed a roadmap with five objectives for the Chilean government to expand its health information technology (health IT) capabilities over the next ten years.
Aug 25, 2016
Report
A Roadmap for the Development of Health Information Technology in Chile
This report describes a roadmap for fostering development of health information technology in Chile's public health system and presents some recommendations for the ministry to consider when implementing the roadmap.
May 20, 2016
Journal Article
A Learning Behavioral Health Care System: Opportunities to Enhance Research
A learning health system could help address current challenges in delivery of behavioral health care, from lack of care coordination and decision-support tools to disparities in access, quality, and outcomes.
May 9, 2016
Report
Developing a Strategic Program for Chilean Health Information Technology: Environmental Scan and Key Informant Interviews
This report assesses the current state of health information technology adoption and implementation in Chile, as well as the challenges and opportunities facing the sector in the coming years.
Feb 11, 2016
Commentary
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
News Release
Health Information Exchanges Show Promise, but More Work Is Needed to Realize Greater Benefits
Health information exchanges show some evidence of reducing emergency department costs and usage, but since only a few have been evaluated, there is not enough evidence to say whether or not they are on track as a potential solution to the problem of fragmented health care delivery in the U.S.
Dec 1, 2014
Report
Health and Healthcare: Assessing the Real World Data Policy Landscape in Europe
To maximise Real-World Data potential and improve health outcomes and service delivery, stakeholders need to develop standards for data use and access. RAND Europe assessed the RWD landscape in Europe and explored options going forwards.
Apr 24, 2014

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Researcher Spotlight

Shannon Walsh

Ph.D. Student, Pardee RAND Graduate School, and Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND

Shannon Walsh is a Ph.D. student in the Technology Applications and Implications stream at Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. Her research interests include health equity, biotechnology, emerging technology, and generative AI. She has an M.S. in digital…
Hampton Toole

Analyst

Hampton Toole (she/her) is an analyst at the RAND Corporation. She works primarily in health and wellbeing at RAND Europe with a focus on health care innovation research. She has experience in health systems research on subjects including NHS innovation programmes, utilising desk research,…

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