Special Issue: Health Information Technology

Determining the impact of health information technology adoption and hospital-physician integration on hospital efficiency.

Lessons learned about data governance and distribution from a voluntary healthcare claims repository, the Health Care Cost Institute, a nonprofit research organization

Studies of health information technology have not kept up with the evolving needs of the healthcare system. We explain how to set them straight.

Availability of electronic health records among advanced practice nurses and physicians in California is concentrated among large practices with fewer Medicaid patients.

This study examines adoption of electronic health records and participation in health information exchange by New York state nursing homes over time.

Use of health information technology in acute care settings is associated with modestly lower rates of adverse patient safety outcomes for inpatient and surgical care.

With diabetes rates projected to rise sharply, automated retinal screening may represent an attractive low-cost option to meet the growing demand for routine screening services.

Usage of a health information exchange system at the point of care reduced the occurrence of repeat imaging procedures in a multi-payer community sample.

This study examined the costs of nurse-initiated or automated follow-up processes for patients seen in ambulatory care settings

Users' acceptance of electronic health record-based asynchronous alerts can negatively impact provider satisfaction, intentions to quit, and ultimately turnover.

The authors' study identifies a key factor, management quality, which modifies the association between electronic health record adoption and hospital performance.

Healthcare professionals used a complex combination of information retrieval pathways for health information exchange to obtain clinical information from external organizations.

This year's special issue on Health Information Technology (HIT) features an impressive body of new research that reflects progress in the field along an array of dimensions-new timely questions, emerging sources of data, and novel methodologies applied to HIT.

We present the first reported national trends in the adoption of electronic prescription of controlled substances, from July 2012 to December 2013. The results show that the uptake rates of this newly allowed process are steadily increasing.

Primary care physicians using more health information technology were less likely to accept new patients.

Improving adherence to long-term medication therapy remains a challenge. Health information technology interventions that leverage electronic medical records are promising, low-cost approaches for increasing adherence.