Health Information Technology

Accuracy of a Computerized Clinical Decision-Support System for Asthma Assessment and Management. L. Hoeksema, A. Bazzy-Asaad, E. Lomotan, et al., Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, May 2011; 18:243-250. Evaluates the accuracy of a computerized clinical decision-support system designed to support assessment and management of pediatric asthma in a subspecialty clinic. (AHRQ 11-R048)

Commercial Off-the-Shelf Consumer Health Informatics Interventions: Recommendations for Their Design, Evaluation, and Redesign. J. Marquand, T. Zayas-Caban, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Jan-Feb 2012; 19(1):137-42. Epub July 2011. Describes successful application of a use case-based approach to guide the effective design, evaluation, and redesign of inexpensive, commercial, off-the-shelf consumer health informatics. (AHRQ 11-R075)

Considerations for the Design of Safe and Effective Consumer Health IT Applications in the Home. T. Zayas-Caban, B. Dixon, Quality and Safety in Health Care, October 2010; 19(Suppl 3):i61-i67. Presents the results of an analysis of human factors and ergonomics issues encountered by five projects during the design and implementation of home-based consumer health information technology (IT) applications. (AHRQ 11-R014)

Decisionmaker Briefs. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. August 2008, 2 pp each. Describes outcomes and best practices from AHRQ-funded projects in various topic areas.
Bar-Coded Medication Administration. (AHRQ 08-0085)
Chronic Disease Management. (AHRQ 08-0084)
Computerized Provider Order Entry. (AHRQ 08-0093)
Telehealth. (AHRQ 08-0045)

Evaluating the Use of a Computerized Clinical Decision Support System for Asthma by Pediatric Pulmonologists. E. Lomotan, L. Hoeksema, D. Edmonds, et al., International Journal of Medical Informatics, March 2012; 81(3):157-165. Presents the results of a qualitative evaluation of a new guideline-based, computerized decision support system for asthma that was introduced in a pediatric pulmonology clinic of a large academic medical center. (AHRQ 12-R046)

Health Information Management in the Home: A Human Factors Assessment. T. Zayas-Caban, Work, January 2012; 41(3):315-328. Uses interviews and task observation to examine four families' health information management tasks in their homes. (AHRQ 12-R067)

How Can We Bend the Cost Curve? Health Information Technology and Its Effects on Hospital Costs, Outcomes, and Patient Safety. W. Encinosa, J. Bae, Inquiry, Winter 2011/2012; 48(4):233-303. Examines whether electronic medical records can contain costs in the Affordable Care Act's reforms to reduce patient safety events. (AHRQ 12-R069)

Industrial and Systems Engineering and Health Care: Critical Areas of Research, Final Report. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, May 2010, 138 pp. Explores the critical areas of research at the intersection of industrial and systems engineering and health care, with a special emphasis on the supportive role of health IT, and proposes a detailed research and action agenda. (AHRQ 10-0079)

Reducing Disparities in Health Care Quality: The Role of Health IT in Underresourced Settings. M. Gibbons, C. Casale, Medical Care Research and Review, October 2010; 67(5 Suppl):155-162. Outlines the process, findings, and key recommendations of an expert workshop focused on the use of health IT in underresourced health care settings. (AHRQ 11-R019)

Many other publications on health IT topics—including electronic health records, electronic prescribing, health IT in small and rural communities, health information exchange, and telehealth—can be found at http://www.healthit.ahrq.gov.

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