Enabling Through Health IT
- Guide to Reducing Unintended Consequences of Electronic Health Records is an online resource designed to help you and your organization anticipate, avoid, and address problems that can occur when implementing and using an electronic health record (EHR). Our purpose in developing the Guide was to provide practical, troubleshooting knowledge and resources.
- Health IT-Enabled Care Coordination and Redesign in Tennessee (PDF, 2 MB) highlights opportunities to improve the impact of health IT on care coordination activities in primary care.
- Core Functionality in Pediatric Electronic Health Records EHRs (PDF, 1.4 MB) examines features needed in pediatric electronic health record (EHR) systems to ensure quality care for children.
- Examining the Relationship Between Health IT and Ambulatory Care Workflow Redesign (PDF, 3.4 MB) documents how workflow changed in six primary and specialty care medical offices after health IT systems were implemented.
- Patient-Reported Health IT and Workflow (PDF, 3.8 MB) documents workflow impacts of applications that allow patients to share information with primary care providers electronically.
- Using Health Information Technology to Support Quality Improvement in Primary Care. This white paper describes factors that support the use of health information technology (IT) for quality improvement (QI) in primary care, for use by practice facilitators and other quality improvement "agents" to help them optimize practices’ health IT capabilities for QI purposes as well as for clinical care.
- Toolset for E-Prescribing Implementation in Physician Offices: This toolset provides ambulatory care practices with the knowledge and resources to implement e-prescribing successfully.
