The adoption gap: Health information technology in small physician practices

Health Affairs

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1364-1366

  Lee, Jason ^a   Cain, Carol ^b   Young, Scott ^b   Chockley, Nancy ^c   Burstin, Helen ^d  

^a National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation   (United States)

^b AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

^c NIHCM Foundation

^d AHRQ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; GROUP PRACTICE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; GROUP PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27644535855     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.5.1364     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. Institute of Medicine, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the Twenty-first Century (Washington: National Academies Press, 2001).
2. U.S. Government Accountability Office, HHS National Health IT Strategy, Pub. no. GAO-05-628 (Washington: GAO, May 2005), 16.
3. A.M. Audet et al., "Information Technologies: When Will They Make It into Physicians' Black Bags?" Medscape General Medicine 6, no. 4 (2004), www.medscape.com/viewarticle/493210 (29 June 2005; registration required).
4. D. Gans et al., "Medical Groups' Adoption of Electronic Health Records and Information Systems," Health Affairs 24, no. 5 (2005): 1323-1333.
5. D.A. Woodwell and D.K. Cherry, "National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2002 Summary," Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics no. 346 (Hyattsville, Md.: National Center for Health Statistics, 2004); and American Medical Association, Physician Socioeconomic Statistics, 2000-2002 Edition (Chicago: AMA, 2001).
6. Conference participants, in addition to the authors, included Clay Ackerly, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Peter Basch, MedStar Health; David J. Brailer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Carolyn Clancy, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Carol Cronin, consultant; Michael Fleming, Family Doctors; Melinda Jenkins, Columbia University; David Kates, WebMD Practice Services; Charles Kennedy, WellPoint Inc.; Nancy Lorenzi, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Robert H. Miller, University of California, San Francisco; Simon Samaha, Copper Health System; Warner Slack, Harvard Medical School; Joseph Smith, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield; Susan Thomas, GE Healthcare Technologies; Robert Wah, Office of the Secretary of Defense/Health Affairs; and Robert Williams, Deloitte Consulting.
7. J. Lee and A. Shartzer, "Health IT and Workflow in Small Physicians' Practices," April 2005, www.nihcm.org/AHRQ-QandA.pdf (2 August 2005).