Health Information Technology

IHA serves as a resource to members on health information technology issues. Relevant Indiana health information technology resources include: IHA Council on Information Management, Indiana Health Information Exchange, and the Indiana Heatlh Informatics Corporation.

HITECH-ARRA Resource Center
Learn more about the HITECH provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act including information on meaningful use, privacy and security, information exchanges, state-level activity, and other resources.

Indiana Health Informatics Corporation
IHIC is a public/private organization (similar to the Indiana Economic Development corporation) created by the state to guide and promote health information exchange in Indiana. IHIC and IHIE are not related.

Origin and Overview 10-29-08
IHIC Board of Directors

ExibhitIN
Exibhit Indiana is an initiative to advance and promote Indiana’s comprehensive strengths and leadership in health information technology. Indiana’s breakthroughs in this area are improving the quality, safety and cost efficiency of health care in the state by improving access to data for better decisions and patient care. The Hoosier state boasts one of the strongest health IT sectors anywhere in the United States today with five operating health information exchanges (HIE), HIT-adopting hospitals and physicians, innovative entrepreneurial organizations and a long history of groundbreaking HIT research through the Regenstrief Institute at Indiana University.

Health information links:

Council on Information Management
American Health Information Community
Indiana University School of Informatics- Health Information Technology Training Programs

If you have questions or need additional information regarding heath information technology, please contact Bernice Ulrich at 317/423-7739 or bulrich@ihaconnect.org.

AHRQ IT News

Final ACTION Contract Report: Integrating Clinical Decision Support into Workflow

There were two major objectives for this project: (1) to identify barriers and facilitators to workflow integration of clinical decision support (CDS) for colorectal cancer screening and 2) to prototype and test CDS design alternatives for improved integration into workflow through a controlled simulation study.

Mon, 3 Oct 2011 16:17:06 -0400

Toolkit Available for Assessing the Impact of Health IT on Workflow in Provider Offices

Principal Investigators: Pascale Carayon and Ben-Tzion Karsh (Contract No. 290-08-10036) This toolkit helps provider offices assess their worksflows before, during, and after the implementation of a health IT system.

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:17:07 -0400

2010 Health IT Portfolio Annual Report

The AHRQ Health Information Technology Portfolio's 2010 Annual Report is designed to disseminate information on the research areas and progress at both the Portfolio and individual project levels. The report describes activities that took place throughout the year and synthesizes challenges, outputs, and successes of the 180 active projects. In addition, as part of the report, an individual project summary for each of the 121 grants and 59 contracts provides an overview of each project's long term objectives, status updates of the specific aims and objectives, and updates on completed or ongoing project activities.

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:03:54 -0400

Quality Oral Health Care in Medicaid Through Health IT

This project report for Medicaid-SCHIP details whether and how health information technology (health IT) and the Medicaid EHR incentive program can be used as tools to improve access to quality oral health care for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:29:30 -0400

Physician Practices, E-Prescribing and Accessing Information to Improve Prescribing Decisions

E-prescribing systems can provide physicians access to important patient information, such as drugs prescribed by physicians in other practices and formulary information that can help reduce insured patients’ drug costs, but many physicians are reluctant to use these features because they are viewed as cumbersome and unreliable, according to a new report funded by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The report, prepared for AHRQ by researchers at the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), is a qualitative study of 24 physician practices using e-prescribing systems. Study respondents highlighted two barriers to use: 1) tools to view and use the patient health information are cumbersome to use in some systems; and 2) data are not always seen as useful enough to expend the extra effort to use them. For more information about the HSC Research Brief, go to http://www.hschange.org/CONTENT/1202/.

Thu, 5 May 2011 09:10:55 -0400

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