New videos on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s HealthIT YouTube channel highlight successful health information technology (IT) projects that enhanced care coordination, exchange of health information, and improved medication management. These videos provide insights for health services researchers, health care providers, and patient advocates on how AHRQ research supports the use of health IT to improve quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of care.
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New Videos Highlight Ways that Health IT Improves Care and Satisfaction
New videos on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s HealthIT YouTube channel highlight successful health information technology (IT) projects that enhanced care coordination, exchange of health information, and improved medication management. These videos provide insights for health services researchers, health care providers, and patient advocates on how AHRQ research supports the use of health IT to improve quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of care.
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Challenges...
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- patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
- transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
- institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
- vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.