Browsing by Subject "HIT"

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    Informatics/health IT implementation in DNP education: Faculty, organizational, and program characteristics for diverse professional roles
    (IUPUI School of Informatics and Computing, 2020) Fulton, Cathy R.; Hinton Walker, Patricia
    Nursing informatics/health IT is critical to achieving and measuring patient safety and outcomes as well as key components of graduate nursing education, accreditation and practice. Electronic survey findings (2011) from AACN accredited DNP program directors are compared to a replicated/expanded follow-up survey to further explore informatics/health IT content and experience.
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    Pit Crews with Computers: Can Health Information Technology Fix Fragmented Care
    (2014) Terry, Nicolas P.
    Fragmentation and lack of coordination remain as some of the most intractable problems facing health care. Attention has often alighted on the promise of Health care Information Technology not least because IT has had such positive impact on many other personal, professional and industrial domains. For at least two decades the HIT-panacea narrative has been persistent even though the context has shifted. At various times we have been promised that patient safety technologies would solve our medical error problems, electronic transactions would simplify healthcare administration and insurance and clinical data would become interoperable courtesy of electronic medical records. Today the IoM is positioning HIT at the center of its new “continuously learning” health care model that is in large part aimed at solving our fragmentation and lack of coordination problems. While the consensus judgment that HIT can reduce fragmentation and increase coordination has intuitive force the specifics are more complicated. First, the relationship between health care and IT has been both culturally and financially complex. Second, HIT has been overhyped as a solution for all of health care’s woes; it has its own problems. Third, the HIT-fragmentation solution presents a chicken-and-egg problem — can HIT solve health care fragmentation and lack of coordination problems or must health care problems such as episodic care be solved prior to successful deployment of HIT? The article takes a critical look at both health care and HIT with those questions in mind before concluding with some admittedly difficult recommendations designed to break the chicken-and-egg deadlock.