Measuring the impact of health information technology.
Author(s): Hanauer, D, Zheng, K
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2012-06-LE-0025
Author(s): Hanauer, D, Zheng, K
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2012-06-LE-0025
There are problems of quality in maternity services at primary health care level in South Africa. Many of these problems can be traced to non-adherence to the maternity care guidelines and lack of tools to support clinic staff and managers in their roles.
Author(s): Horner, V, Rautenbach, P, Mbananga, N, Mashamba, T, Kwinda, H
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2012-10-RA-0044
The federal government is promoting adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) through financial incentives for EHR use and implementation support provided by regional extension centers. Small practices have been slow to adopt EHRs.
Author(s): Ancker, J S, Singh, M P, Thomas, R, Edwards, A, Snyder, A, Kashyap, A, Kaushal, R
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2012-09-RA-0033
BACKGROUND: Public health nurse (PHN) home visiting programs have been widely employed to improve life course trajectories for high risk mothers. Home visiting programs are often lengthy, during which PHNs simultaneously address multiple problems using diverse interventions over several client encounters. To manage PHN caseloads it is critical to understand the trajectory of client improvement and the optimal duration or services. PHN documentation data enable intervention trajectory research for specific [...]
Author(s): Monsen, K A, Farri, O, McNaughton, D B, Savik, Kay
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2011-06-RA-0038
OBJECTIVES: To analyze sociotechnical issues involved in the process of developing an interoperable commercial Personal Health Record (PHR) in a hospital setting, and to create guidelines for future PHR implementations. METHODS: This qualitative study utilized observational research and semi-structured interviews with 8 members of the hospital team, as gathered over a 28 week period of developing and adapting a vendor-based PHR at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University. A [...]
Author(s): Gaskin, Gregory L, Longhurst, Christopher A, Slayton, Rebecca, Das, Amar K
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2011-06-RA-0035
Georgetown University has a student run Emergency Medical Services (EMS) organization with over 100 emergency medical technicians (EMTs). We set out to determine whether implementing an electronic patient care report (ePCR) system was associated with improved physical exam documentation.
Author(s): Katzer, R, Barton, D J, Adelman, S, Clark, S, Seaman, E L, Hudson, K B
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2012-03-RA-0008
This paper aims to present the archetype modelling process used for the Health Department of Minas Gerais State, Brazil (SES/MG), to support building its regional EHR system, and the lessons learned during this process.
Author(s): Santos, M R, Bax, M P, Kalra, D
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2011-12-RA-0074
Health information exchange is a national priority, but there is limited evidence of its effectiveness.
Author(s): Kern, L M, Barrón, Y, Dhopeshwarkar, R V, Kaushal, R
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2012-02-RA-0005
Just as researchers and clinicians struggle to pin down the benefits attendant to health information technology (IT), management scholars have long labored to identify the performance effects arising from new technologies and from other organizational innovations, namely the reorganization of work and the devolution of decision-making authority. This paper applies lessons from that literature to theorize the likely sources of measurement error that yield the weak statistical relationship between measures [...]
Author(s): Litwin, A S, Avgar, A C, Pronovost, P J
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2012-02-R-0004
Employing new health information technologies while concurrently providing quality patient care and reducing risk is a major challenge in all health care sectors. In this study, we investigated the usability gaps in the Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) as ten nurses differentiated by two experience levels, namely six expert nurses and four novice nurses, completed two lists of nine scenario-based tasks.
Author(s): Kim, M S, Shapiro, J S, Genes, N, Aguilar, M V, Mohrer, D, Baumlin, K, Belden, J L
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2011-11-RA-0065