Reports

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Year	Title	Source	Summary	Resources
2003	Leadership by Example	Institute of Medicine	Information technology tools can provide the health care sector with unprecedented productivity and quality of care if there is a strategic vision and adequate research to ensure success. However, PITAC found that at present the U.S. lacks a broadly disseminated and accepted national vision for information technology in health care. Their recommendations include pilot IT projects, a scalable national computing infrastructure, legislation to assure confidentiality, and programs to increase the pool of biomedical research and health care professionals with training at the intersection of health and information technology.	HTML
2002	Fostering Rapid Advances in Health Care: Learning from System Demonstrations	Institute of Medicine	The IOM recommends that DHHS implement eight to ten IT demonstrations to match NHII goal--ready access to relevant information for clinicians, support tools for patients including educational materials, electronic communications between patient and clinicians and among clinicians, data capture and decision support, management, performance measurement for ongoing assessment and of safety and quality, and accountability.	HTML
2001	Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century	Institute of Medicine	Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.	HTML
2001	Information for Health: A Strategy for Building the National Health Information Infrastructure	NCVHS	The Complete NHII Report	HTML PDF
2001	Transforming Health Care Through Information Technology	Presidents Information Technology Advisory Committee	Information technology tools can provide the health care sector with unprecedented productivity and quality of care if there is a strategic vision and adequate research to ensure success. However, PITAC found that at present the U.S. lacks a broadly disseminated and accepted national vision for information technology in health care. Their recommendations include pilot IT projects, a scalable national computing infrastructure, legislation to assure confidentiality, and programs to increase the pool of biomedical research and health care professionals with training at the intersection of health and information technology.	PDF
2000	Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet	National Research Council-Computer Science & Telecommunications Board	Networking Health examines ways in which the Internet may become a routine part of health care delivery and payment, public health, health education, and biomedical research. Building upon a series of site visits, this book: Weighs the role of the Internet versus private networks in uses ranging from the transfer of medical images to providing video-based medical consultations at a distance. Reviews technical challenges in the areas of quality of service, security, reliability, and access, and looks at the potential utility of the next generation of online technologies. Discusses ways health care organizations can use the Internet to support their strategic interests and explores barriers to a broader deployment of the Internet. Recommends steps that private and public sector entities can take to enhance the capabilities of the Internet for health purposes and to prepare health care organizations to adopt new Internet-based applications.	HTML
2000	To Err is Human	Institute of Medicine	This report lays out a comprehensive strategy for addressing a serious problem in health care to which we are all vulnerable. By laying out a concise list of recommendations, the committee does not underestimate the many barriers that must be overcome to accomplish this agenda. Significant changes are required to improve awareness of the problem by the public and health professionals, to align payment systems and the liability system so they encourage safety improvements, to develop training and education programs that emphasize the importance of safety and for chief executive officers and trustees of health care organizations to create a culture of safety and demonstrate it in their daily decisions.	HTML
2000	Toward a National Health Information Infrastructure	NCVHS		HTML
2000	Uniform Data Standards for Patient Medical Record Information	NCVHS	The PMRI Report	PDF
1997	The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care	Institute of Medicine	An expert committee explores the potential of machine-readable CPRs to improve diagnostic and care decisions, provide a database for policymaking, and much more, addressing these key questions: Who uses patient records? What technology is available and what further research is necessary to meet users' needs? What should government, medical organizations, and others do to make the transition to CPRs? The volume also explores such issues as privacy and confidentiality, costs, the need for training, legal barriers to CPRs, and other key topics.	HTML

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