Health information infrastructure

Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine: Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 423-441

  Yasnoff, William A ^a  

^a NHII Advisors   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS;

HEALTH INFORMATIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 84897941346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4474-8_13     Document Type: Chapter

References (8)

1. Aanestad, M., & Jensen, T.B. (2011). Building nationwide information infrastructures in healthcare through modular implementation strategies. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 20 (2), 161-176. An interesting study comparing two large-scale HII implementations, one of which failed, suggesting that both a gradual transition of the installed base and a modular approach are needed for success.
2. Adler-Milstein, J., Bates, D.W., & Jha, A.K. (2011). A survey of health information exchange organizations in the United States: Implications for meaningful use. Annals of Internal Medicine, 154, 666-671. The recent comprehensive survey of 179 HIEs that found that none of them had comprehensive capabilities and concluded that the current development path was unlikely to succeed.
3. Castro D. (2007) Improving health care: Why a dose of IT may be just what the doctor ordered. Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Available at http://www.itif.org/publications/improving-healthcare-why-dose-it-may-be-just-what-doctor-ordered. Accessed 17 Dec 2012. This is the first independent report that endorsed patient-centric architecture (HRBs) as an effective approach to HII. It describes clearly the problems and challenges of HIEs.
4. Krist, A.H., & Woolf, S.H. (2011). A vision for patientcentered health information systems. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 305 (3), 300-301. A vision of how fully functional patientcentric electronic medical record systems could be the basis for an effective HII.
5. Miller, R.H., & Miller, B.S. (2007). The Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange: What happened? Health Affairs, 26 (5), 568w-580w. This paper describes the history of one of the earliest HIEs, including details about the factors leading to its failure.
6. National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. (2001). Information for health: A strategy for building the National Health Information Infrastructure. Report and recommendations from the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. Available at http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/nhiilayo.pdf. Accessed 17 Dec 2012. This seminal work was the first to call for a national HII, coining the term. It comprehensively describes the need for HII, the problems it would solve, and the necessity for government investment to incentivize its development.
7. Steinbrook, R. (2008). Personally controlled online health data-The next big thing in medical care? The New England Journal of Medicine, 358 (16), 1653-1656. A physician's perspective on the need for patients to control their own electronic health data.
8. Yasnoff, W.A., Humphreys, B.L., Overhage, J.M., Detmer, D.E., Brennan, P.F., Morris, R.W., Middleton, B., Bates, D.W., & Fanning, J.P. (2004). A consensus action agenda for achieving the national health information infrastructure. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 11 (4), 332-338. This paper describes the results of the first national consensus conference on HII held in Washington, DC, in 2003. This was the meeting that led to the creation of ONC in 2004.