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Health Information Technology Interoperability

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
Journal Article

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
News Release

Online Guide Helps Health Organizations Adopt Electronic Health Records

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.

Dec 14, 2011
Report

How Should Drugs Be Identified in Electronic Prescribing Systems?

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.

Jul 20, 2011
Research Brief

How Should Drugs be Identified in Electronic Prescribing Systems?

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

Jul 20, 2011
Report

Influences on the Adoption of Multifactor Authentication

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.

Apr 15, 2011
Research Brief

Identity Crisis? Approaches to Patient Identification in a National Health Information Network

This research brief summarizes an analysis and comparison of two methods of patient identification -- statistical matching and unique patient identifier -- on error rates, operational efficiency, costs, and privacy and security issues.

Oct 8, 2008
Report

The State and Pattern of Health Information Technology Adoption

Estimates the current level and pattern of Healthcare Information Technology adoption in different types of healthcare organizations, and evaluates factors that affect this diffusion process.

Sep 12, 2005
Journal Article

Pharmacy, Facsimile, and Cyberspace: An Examination of Legal Frameworks for Electronic Prescribing

Are recent laws in conflict with the technological trend toward wireless transfer of physician and patient-specific health information, and will they present overwhelming barriers to the widespread use of e-prescribing?

Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article

The Urge to Merge: Linking Vital Statistics Records and Medicaid Claims

This paper describes a procedure used to link Medicaid claims data to California vital statistics records for very low birthweight infants.

Oct 1, 1994