Technology

In this video, Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, US Department of Health and Human Services, addresses ways to reduce regulatory burden in the implementation of meaningful use.

Shelly Spiro, RPh, FASCP, Director of the Pharmacy e-Health Information Technology Collaborative, provided an overview of pharmacy Health Information Technology (HIT) during her presentation The Roadmap for Pharmacy HIT Integration on Friday.

This commentary reflects how high-performing healthcare organizations use health information technology to advance patient safety.

In this segment, Dr. Farzad Mostashari highlights both the financial and non-financial challenges providers face when implementing electronic medical records.

Self-empowering team resource management, when aided by information technology, appears to help reduce adverse drug events in primary care offices.

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The TELEMACO project successfully used telemedicine to establish a healthcare continuity from hospital to territory in remote areas of the Lombardy region of Italy.

Online prescription management accounts may help promote medication adherence, as utilizing patients had a higher proportion of days covered than nonusers.

Cell phone“based text messaging may be used to feasibly support chronic disease management and engagement in diabetes self-care behaviors for some patients.

Small primary care practices reap some organizational and quality of care improvements from electronic health records; however, challenges persist in achieving meaningful use standards.

This is a comparative effectiveness study that evaluates the safety effects of 2 types of commercially available electronic prescribing systems.

Health information technology that is implemented as part of a multifaceted quality improvement initiative can lead to improvements in hypertension care and outcomes.

A qualitative process evaluation attributes the success of a technology-driven hypertension intervention to the combination of multiple intervention components framed as quality improvement.

Automated telephone reminders resulted in a small but significant increase in adherence to inhaled corticosteroids among adult asthma patients in a large managed care organization.

The authors discuss the wide-reaching impact of legislation spurring the adoption of health information technology and provide an overview of the content found in this special issue.

Broad enthusiasm exists among hospitals for participation in Meaningful Use. However, many hospitals have a long road ahead to implement the advanced systems required for the program.

Few US hospitals exchange data electronically with unaffiliated providers. Factors associated with competitiveness appear to influence hospitals' decisions to engage in clinical data exchange.