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Author Fonkych, Kateryna.

Title The state and pattern of health information technology adoption / Kateryna Fonkych, Roger Taylor.

Imprint Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corp., 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 52 pages) : illustrations
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Note "RAND Health."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-52).
Contents Literature findings on the factors of HIT adoption and on the influence of HIT -- Estimates of current HIT adoption and of HIT diffusion -- Factors related to HIT adoption -- Summary of results and conclusions.
Summary Innovations in information technology (IT) have improved efficiency and quality in many industries. Healthcare has not been one of them. Although some administrative IT systems, such as those for billing, scheduling, and inventory management, are already in place in the healthcare industry, little adoption of clinical IT, such as Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMR-S) and Clinical Decision Support tools, has occurred. Government intervention has been called for to speed the adoption process for Healthcare Information Technology (HIT), based on the widespread belief that its adoption, or diffusion, is too slow to be socially optimal. In this report, we estimate the current level and pattern of HIT adoption in the different types of healthcare organizations, and we evaluate factors that affect this diffusion process. First, we make an effort to derive a population-wide adoption level of administrative and clinical HIT applications according to information in the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)-Dorenfest database (formerly the Dorenfest IHDS+TM Database, Second release, 2004) and compare our estimates to alternative ones. We then attempt to summarize the current state and dynamics of HIT adoption according to these data and briefly review existing empirical studies on the HIT-adoption process. By comparing adoption rates across different types of healthcare providers and geographical areas, we help focus the policy agenda by identifying which healthcare providers lag behind and may need the most incentives to adopt HIT. Next, we employ regression analysis to separate the effects of the provider's characteristics and factors on adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), and Picture Archiving Communications Systems (PACS), and compare the effects to findings in the literature.
Note Print version record.
Subject Health services administration -- Information technology.
Medical care -- Information technology.
Medical Informatics Applications
Public Health Informatics -- trends
Services de santé -- Administration -- Technologie de l'information.
Médecine -- Informatique.
Soins médicaux -- Technologie de l'information.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Hospitals & Medical Centers.
Public Health.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Added Author Taylor, Roger, MD.
Rand Corporation.
Added Title Rand (Online publications)
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
Other Form: Print version: Fonkych, Kateryna. State and pattern of health information technology adoption. Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corp., 2005 (DLC) 2005021867
ISBN 9780833040985 (electronic bk.)
0833040987 (electronic bk.)
0833038478
9780833038470
9780833040930 (online)
0833040936
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