Health Information Technology
Using health IT could help clinicians answer questions about safety, efficacy and cost, according to a series of articles in the journal Health Affairs. IT applications also could prove useful in helping physicians manage data held in electronic health records and other new technology.
The lead article in the series claims that searchable EHR databases could provide better data faster and at a lower cost than clinical studies (Health Affairs, 1/26). The articles appear below.
- "Prologue: Rapid Learning: Getting Technology Into Practice" (Health Affairs, 1/26).
- "A Rapid-Learning Health System" (Etheredge, Health Affairs, 1/26).
- "Perspective: The Gap Between Evidence and Practice" (Liang, Health Affairs, 1/26).
- "Moving Closer to a Rapid-Learning Health Care System" (Slutsky, Health Affairs, 1/26).
- "Linking Electronic Medical Records to Large-Scale Simulation Models: Can We Put Rapid Learning on Turbo?" (Eddy, Health Affairs, 1/26).
- "Perspective: Archimedes: A Bold Step Into the Future" (Lumpkin, Health Affairs, 1/26).
- "Federal Initiatives To Support Rapid Learning About New Technologies" (Tunis et al., Health Affairs, 1/26).
- "Perspective: Challenges Ahead for Federal Technology Assessment" (Neumann, Health Affairs, 1/26).
- "Perspective: Speed Bumps, Potholes, and Tollbooths on the Road to Panacea: Making Best Use of Data" (Platt, Health Affairs, 1/26).
- "Advancing Evidence-Based Care for Diabetes: Lessons From the Veterans Health Administration" (Kupersmith et al., Health Affairs, 1/26).
- "Reshaping Cancer Learning Through the Use of Health Information Technology" (Wallace, Health Affairs, 1/26).
- "Perspective: Health Information Technology: Does it Facilitate or Hinder Rapid Learning?" (Pawlson, Health Affairs, 1/26).
- "Bridging the Inferential Gap: The Electronic Health Record and Clinical Evidence" (Stewart et al., Health Affairs, 1/26).
- "Perspective: Information Technology and the Inferential Gap" (Perlin/Kupersmith, Health Affairs, 1/26).