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The Future Of Health Information Technology In The Patient-Centered Medical Home [Medical Home]
Most electronic health records today need further development of
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their efficiency, quality, and safety. We propose a road map of the
domains that need to be addressed to achieve these results. We
believe that the development of electronic health records will be
critical in seven major areas: telehealth, measurement of quality
and efficiency, care transitions, personal health records, and,
most important, registries, team care, and clinical decision
support for chronic diseases. To encourage this development, policy
makers should include medical homes in emerging electronic health
record regulations. Additionally, more research is needed to learn
how these records can enhance team care.
Speed electronic medical record adoption via key medical centers, says Management Science
Persuading influential medical centers to adopt electronic medical
records helps speed adoption by their neighboring hospitals,
according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue
of Management Science, a flagship journal of the Institute for
Operations Research and the Management Sciences
(INFORMS®). "Social Contagion and Information Technology
Diffusion: The Adoption of Electronic Medical Records in U.S.
Hospitals" is by Corey M. Angst and Ken Kelley of the University of
Notre Dame; Ritu Agarwal of the University of Maryland; and V. read
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Patient Experience Should Be Part Of Meaningful-Use Criteria [Defining Meaningful Use]
The proposed federal "meaningful use" criteria for electronic
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care. In this study, we sought to describe the adoption and use of
online services linked to the electronic health record at Group
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test results online, while 10 percent went online to request
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