More than 50% of consumers are skeptical about the benefits of healthcare information technologies, including patient portals, mobile apps and electronic health records. And fully 70% of Americans ...

Health systems are important in driving electronic health record adoption in ambulatory clinics, although the uptake of key functionalities varies across systems. Objectives: The adoption and use of ...

Health informatics saves lives by combining information technology and computer science with clinical expertise and management for better patient care. It's a broad field, and the far-ranging effects ...

Studies of health information technology have not kept up with the evolving needs of the healthcare system. We explain how to set them straight. Despite rapid growth in the rate of adoption of health ...

Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin ( [email protected]) is a senior economic adviser in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in ...

Arthur L. Kellermann ( [email protected]) is the Paul O’Neill–Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis at the RAND Corporation in Arlington, Virginia. Spencer S. Jones is an information scientist at RAND and an ...

Health technologies can support the implementation o effective national health and care systems. These are defined as data-enabled infrastructure that supports policy and planning. In addition, they ...

On June 17, 2024, the final rule for Medicare Part D introduced new health IT standards, mandating the adoption of NCPDP SCRIPT Standard version 2023011 by January 1, 2028, while the NCPDP Formulary ...

Instead of calling this the information blocking rule, they should have called it the information sharing rule. The industry ...

Saint Louis University's accelerated Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences with a concentration in health information management to Master of Science in Health Data Science is designed for students ...

The University of Tennessee Medical Center and Indian's Margaret Mary Community Hospital both deny any wrongdoing.