Sunday, March 13, 2011

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HIT\'s impact on health disparities: Will it help or harm?

( American Medical Informatics Association ) A roundtable of health care stakeholders address questions related to health information technology\'s impact on health and health care disparities in a two-day invitational roundtable on March 7-8, sponsored by the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and AMIA, the association for informatics ...

Review Of Recent Studies Shows Predominantly Positive Results For Health Information Technology

A study completed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and published in the journal Health Affairs finds growing evidence of the benefits of health information technology (HIT). Using methods that were employed by two previous independent reviews, the new study finds that 92 percent of articles on HIT reached conclusions that showed overall positive ...

HHS Finds IT Boosts Quality, Efficiency Of Healthcare

Literature review shows 92% of recent studies support the government\'s push to bring technology into the medical office.