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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

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

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

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

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

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

Describes a roadmap with five objectives for the Chilean government to expand its health information technology (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

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

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
Commentary

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
Journal Article

A Vision for Care Coordination and Electronic Health Records

Health information technology could improve care coordination, but providers don't yet have the tools that they need.

Jun 15, 2013
Journal Article

More Changes in Health Care Needed to Fulfill Promise of Health Information Technology

Despite wide investments nationally in electronic medical records and related tools, the cost-saving promise of health information technology has not been reached because the systems deployed are neither interconnected nor easy to use.

Jan 1, 2013
Report

A Prototype Knowledge-Sharing Service for Clinical Decision Support Artifacts

A description of 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.

May 17, 2012

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