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Healthcare Informatics

A Compendium of Selected Public Health Data Sources

Consumer Health Informatics and Patient Decisionmaking

Current Activities of Selected Healthcare Informatics Standards Organizations

Healthcare Informatics Standards Activities for Federal Agencies (A Compendium)

Medical Informatics for Better and Safer Health Care

Secretary Announces New Health Information Technology Strategic Framework

Three Decades of Research on Computer Applications in Health Care: Medical Informatics Support at AHRQ

Using Computers To Advance Health Care

What Physician Executives Need to Know about HIPAA


Agency Press Releases

10/13/04 HHS Awards $139 Million To Drive Adoption of Health Information Technology
4/29/04 New AHRQ Tool for PDAs Helps Clinicians Select Preventive Services by Age and Gender
3/1/04 New AHRQ Tool for PDAs Helps Clinicians Treat Community-acquired Pneumonia
Conference and Meeting Summaries

Health Information Technology: Expert Panel Meeting
Highlights of Moving Toward International Standards in Primary Care Informatics: Clinical Vocabulary
Institutional Review Boards and Health Services Research Data Privacy: A Workshop Summary
Moving Toward International Standards in Primary Care Information: Clinical Vocabulary: Conference Summary
Partnerships '97: Networked Consumer Health Information

Evidence Reports

Evidence Report/Technology Assessment: Number 24:
Telemedicine for the Medicare Population (Clincal Focus)
Evidence Report/Technology Assessment: Number 24, Supplement:
Telemedicine for the Medicare Population: Pediatric, Obstetric, and Clinician-Indirect Home Interventions (Clincal Focus)

User Liaison Program Workshop Summaries

Integrated State Health Information Systems

Research Findings

Research Activities, March 2004:
Researchers examine the management of chronic illness in managed care settings
Updated ICU information systems substantially free nurses from documentation, giving them more time for direct patient care

Research Activities, November 2003:
Researchers examine use of the Internet, E-mail, and telephone triage for medical advice

Research Activities, September 2003:
Information technology is one key to improving patient safety
Organizational culture and leadership, as well as medical informatics, play important roles in quality improvement
Availability of computerized health information does not appear to affect use of medical care

Research Activities, October 2002:
Using an electronic medical record for diagnostic and treatment feedback does not lead to better primary care for depression

Research Activities, August 2002:
Researchers examine the role of informatics in responding to bioterrorism, mass disasters, and war
Conference attendees review the state of the art in telemedicine and telehealth

Research Activities, July 2002:
New computerized decision aids improve ED triage of chest pain patients

Research Activities, June 2002:
Computerized algorithms that generate reminders, alerts, protocols, and other information reduce clinical errors
New Zealand's no-fault approach to medical injury cases has the potential to prevent such injuries in the future
Health plans can work toward eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities by developing better data
Collaborations between medical informatics and health services reseach are a natural bridge to improved health care quality

Research Activities, March 2001:
Community-based programs offer a way to reach disadvantaged women and encourage them to have mammograms

Research Activities, February 2001:
Some doctors think their office computers are as important to their practice as a stethoscope

Research Activities, January 2001:
Intranets can help clinicians share patient information

Research Activities, January 2000:
Conference focuses on transforming health care through informatics


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