TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED TRANSFORMATIONS IN U.S. HEALTH CARE: Early Findings on Personal Health Records and Individual Use

Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 357-378

  Agarwal, Ritu ^a   Angst, Corey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

eHealth; EHR; Electronic Health Records; Electronic Medical Records; EMR; Health Information Technology; HIT; Personal Health Records; PHR

Indexed keywords

EID: 85139697130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315703626-28     Document Type: Chapter

References (70)

1. Ajzen, I., and Fishbein, M. Understanding Attitudes and Predicting Social Behavior. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1980.
2. Angst, C.M. Patients’ perceived value of using a personal health record. Paper presented at the TEPR-Toward an Electronic Patient Record Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 2004.
3. Aronsky, D., and Haug, P.J. Assessing the quality of clinical data in a computer-based record for calculating the pneumonia severity index. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 7, 1 (2000), 55-65.
4. Baker, L.; Wagner, T.H.; Singer, S.; and Bundorf, M.K. Use of the internet and e-mail for health care information. Journal of the American Medical Association, 289 (2003), 2400-2406.
5. Bates, D.W. Using information technology to reduce rates of medication errors in hospitals. BMJ, 320 (2000), 788-791.
6. Bates, D.W.; Leape, L.L.; Cullen, D.J.; Laird, N.; Petersen, L.A.; Teich, J.M.; et al. Effect of computerized physician order entry and a team intervention on prevention of serious medication errors. Journal of the American Medical Association, 280, 15 (1998), 1311-1316.
7. Bates, D.W.; Spell, N.; Cullen, D.J.; Burdick, E.; Laird, N.; Petersen, L.A.; et al. The costs of adverse drug events in hospitalized patients. Journal of the American Medical Association, 227 (1997), 307-311.
8. Bates, D.W.; Teich, J.M.; Lee, J.; Seger, D.L.; Kuperman, G.J.; Boyle, D.; et al. The impact of computerized physician order entry on medication error prevention. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 6 (1999), 313-321.
9. Bear, J.H. (2000). Desktop Publishing Giants: Software Leaders by the Numbers. 2000 (available at http://desktoppub.about.com/library/weekly/aa012600c.htm, accessed on October 10, 2004).
10. Benbasat, I., and Nault, B.R. Laboratory Experiments in Information Systems Studies with a Focus on Individuals: A Critical Appraisal. Paper presented at the Harvard Business School Research Colloquium, Boston, MA, 1989, pp. 33-47.
11. Bentler, P. Theory and implementation of EQS: a structural equations program (Version 6.0). Software program. Los Angeles: BMDP Statistical Software, Inc., 1985.
12. Brennan, P.F., and Stead, W.W. Assessing data quality: from concordance, through correctness and completeness, to valid manipulatable representations. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 7, 1 (2000), 106-107.
13. Brodie, M.; Flournoy, R.E.; Altman, D.E.; et al. Health information, the internet, and the digital divide. Health Affiliate (Millwood), 19 (2000), 255-265.
14. Bush, G.W. Transforming Health Care: The President’s Health Information Technology Plan. Executive Order 13335: Incentives for the Use of Health Information Technology and Establishing the Position of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator. Washington, DC: Office of the Press Secretary, 2004.
15. Cain, M., and Mittman, R. Diffusion of Innovation in Health Care. Palo Alto, CA: Institute for the Future-California Health Care Foundation, 2002.
16. Chin, T. Americans trail much of Europe in adopting EMRs. American Medical News. September 2, 2002a. 34.
17. Chin, T. New players in electronic prescribing. American Medical News. February 25, 2002b, 27-30.
18. Cimino, J.J. Patient Access to Clinical Information: The PatCIS Project (No. National Information Infrastructure Contract N01-LM-6-3542): National Library of Medicine Final Report, 2000.
19. Cimino, J.J.; Patel, V.L.; and Kushniruk, A.W. The patient clinical information system (PatCIS): Technical solutions for and experience with giving patients access to their electronic medical records. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 68, 1-3 (2002), 113-127.
20. Classen, D.C.; Pestotnik, S.L.; Evans, R.S.; Lloyd, J.F.; and Burke, J.P. Adverse drug events in hospitalized patients. Excess length of stay, extra costs, and attributable mortality. Journal of the American Medical Association, 277 (1997), 301-306.
21. Copeland, D.G., and McKenney, J.L. Airline reservation systems: lessons from history. MIS Quarterly, 12 (1988), 353-371.
22. The Data Standards Working Group: Report and Recommendations. Connecting for health, a program of the Markle Foundation. 2003 (available at http://www.connectingforhealth.org/resources/dswg_report_6.5.03.pdf, accessed on December 16, 2004).
23. Davis, F.D. Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and user acceptance of information technology. MIS Quarterly, 13 (1989), 319-339.
24. Degoulet, P., and Fieschi, M. Critical dimensions in medical informatics. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 44 (1997), 21-26.
25. Devaraj, S., and Kohli, R. Performance impacts of information technology: is actual usage the missing link? Management Science, 49, 3 (2003), 273-299.
26. Dick, R.S.; Steen, E.B.; and Detmer, D.E. (eds.) Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997.
27. eHealth Institute: A catalyst for access and quality. 2004 (available at http://www.ehealthinstitute.org/Index.aspx, accessed on November 17, 2004).
28. Elson, R.B., and Connelly, D.P. Computerized patient records in primary care: their role in mediating guideline-driven physician behavior change. Archives of Family Medicine, 4 (1995), 698-705.
29. Elson, R.B., and Connelly, D.P. The impact of anticipatory patient data displays on physician decision making: a pilot study. Proceedings of the AMIA Annual Fall Symposium. Washington, DC: Hanley and Belfus, 1997, pp. 233-237.
30. Elson, R.B., Faughnan, J., and Connelly, D.P. An industrial process view of information delivery to support clinical decision-making: implications for systems design and process measures. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 4 (1997), 266-278.
31. Fowles, J.B.; Kind, A.C.; Craft, C.; Kind, E.A.; Mandel, J.L.; and Adlis, S. Patients’ interest in reading their medical record: relation with clinical and sociodemographic characteristics and patients’ approach to health care. Arch Intern Med, 164, 7 (2004), 793-800.
32. Gingrich, N., and Kennedy, P. Operating in a Vacuum. New York Times, May 3, 2004, p. 23.
33. Goldsmith, J.; Blumenthal, D.; and Rishel, W. Federal health information policy: a case of arrested development. Health Affairs, 22 (2003), 44-55.
34. Greenes, R.A., and Shortliffe, E.H. (1990). Medical informatics: an emerging discipline with academic and institutional perspectives. Journal of the American Medical Association, 263, 8 (1990), 1114-1120.
35. Grudin, J., and Palen, L. Why groupware succeeds: discretion of mandate? Proceedings of the ECSCW '95. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995, pp. 263-278.
36. Harris Interactive. Two in five adults keep personal or family health records and almost everybody thinks this is a good idea: electronic health records likely to grow rapidly. Harris Interactive Health Care News, 4 (2004), 1-5.
37. Hersh, W.R. Medical informatics: improving health care through information. Journal of the American Medical Association, 288, 16 (2002), 1955-1958.
38. HIPAA Privacy Essentials. Richardson, TX: Privacy Council, 2002.
39. HIPAA Privacy Implementation Guide. Richardson, TX: Privacy Council, 2002.
40. Hogan, W.R., and Wagner, M.M. Accuracy of data in computer-based patient records. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 4, 5 (1997), 342-355.
41. Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine-IDEATel. 2004 (available at http://www.ideatel.com, accessed on June 14, 2004).
42. Kim, K.K., and Michelman, J.E. An examination of factors for the strategic use of information systems in the health care industry. MIS Quarterly, 14, 2 (1990), 201-215.
43. Kim, M.I., and Johnson, K.B. Personal health records: evaluation of functionality and utility. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 9, 2 (2002), 171-179.
44. Kohn, L.T.; Corrigan, J.M.; and Donaldson, M. (eds.) To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, 1999.
45. Laudon, K.C., and Laudon, J.P. Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.
46. The Leapfrog Group Fact Sheet. 2004 (available at http://www.leapfroggroup.org/FactSheets/LF_FactSheet.pdf, accessed on June 15, 2003).
47. Logan, J.R.; Gorman, P.N.; and Middleton, B. Measuring the quality of medical records: a method for comparing completeness and correctness of clinical encounter data. In S. Bakken (ed.), A Medical Odyssey: Visions of the Future and Lessons from the Past. AMIA 2001 Annual Symposium. Washington, DC: Hanley and Belfus, 2001, pp. 408-412.
48. Lucas, H.C. Information Technology and the Productivity Paradox: Assessing the Value of Investing in IT. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
49. Masys, D.; Baker, D.; Butros, A.; and Cowles, K.E. Giving patients access to their medical records via the internet: the PCASSO experience. Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, 9, 2 (2002), 181-191.
50. National Health Care Expenditures: Historical Overview. 2004 (available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/publications/overview-medicare-medicaid/default2.asp, accessed on October 10, 2004).
51. Office of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator (ONCHIT): Mission. 2004 (available at http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/mission.html#, accessed on November 17, 2004).
52. Orthner, H.F. Series preface. In C.P. Friedman, J.C. Wyatt, A.C. Smith, and B. Kaplan (eds.), Evaluation Methods in Medical Informatics. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997, i-xii.
53. Overhage, J.M.; Tierney, W.M.; Zhou, X.-H.; and McDonald, C.J. A randomized trial of “corollary orders” to prevent errors of omission. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 4 (1997), 364-375.
54. Papshev, D., and Peterson, A.M. Electronic prescribing in ambulatory practice: promises, pitfalls, and potential solutions. American Journal of Managed Care, 7 (2001), 725-736.
55. Patel, V.L.; Cytryn, K.N.; Shortliffe, E.H.; and Safran, C. The collaborative health care team: the role of individual and group expertise. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 12, 3 (2000), 117-132.
56. Raghupathi, W. Strategic IT applications in health care. Communications of the ACM, 45, 12 (2002), 56-61.
57. Rogers, E.M. Diffusion of Innovations, 3rd ed. New York: Free Press, 1983.
58. Rogers, E.M. Diffusion of Innovations, 4th ed. New York: Free Press, 1995.
59. Safran, C. Electronic medical records: a decade of experience. Journal of the American Medical Association, 285, 13 (2001), 1766.
60. Safran, C.; Rind, D.M.; Davis, R.B.; Ives, D.; Sands, D.Z.; Currier, J.; et al. Guidelines for management of HIV infection with computer-based patient’s record. The Lancet, 346, 8971 (1995), 341-346.
61. Safran, C.; Sands, D.Z.; and Rind, D.M. Online medical records: a decade of experience. Methods of Information in Medicine, 28, 4-5 (1999), 308-312.
62. Shortliffe, E.H. The evolution of electronic medical records. Academy of Medicine, 74, 4 (1999), 414-419.
63. Stausberg, J.; Koch, D.; Ingenerf, J.; and Betzler, M. Comparing paper-based with electronic patient records: lessons learned during a study on diagnosis and procedure codes. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 10, 5 (2003), 470-477.
64. Stein, H.D.; Nadkarni, P.; Erdos, J.; and Miller, P.L. Exploring the degree of concordance of coded and textual data in answering clinical queries from a clinical data repository. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 7, 1 (2000), 42-54.
65. Swartz, N. What every business needs to know about HIPAA. Information Management Journal, 37, 2 (2003), 26-34.
66. Thompson, T.G., and Brailer, D.J. The Decade of Health Information Technology: Delivering Consumercentric and Information-rich Health Care. Framework for Strategic Action. Washington, DC: Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT), Department of Health and Human Services, and the United States Federal Government, 2004, pp. 1-38 (available at http://www.hhs.gov/news/, accessed on November 16, 2004).
67. Tsai, C.C., and Starren, J. Patient participation in electronic medical records. Journal of the American Medical Association, 285, 13 (2001), 1765.
68. Ueckert, F.; Goerz, M.; Ataian, M.; Tessmann, S.; and Prokosch, H.-U. Empowerment of patients and communication with health care professionals through an electronic health record. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 70, 2-3 (2003), 99-108.
69. Venkatesh, V., and Brown, S.A. A longitudinal investigation of personal computers in homes: adoption determinants and emerging challenges. MIS Quarterly, 25, 1 (2001), 71-102.
70. Von Knoop, C.; Lovich, D.; Silverstein, M.B.; and Tutty, M. Vital Signs: E-health in the United States. Boston: Boston Consulting Group, 2003.