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Welcome to the Health Information Technology Costs & Benefits Database Project
HIT Cost and Benefits Database Project | Search Database
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This tool is designed to find publications from a literature search on the topic of health information technology. You can search according to the following criteria:

Please make a selection below for any criteria you wish to use to help narrow your search.   More information about how to search effectively.

       

HIT Elements

Computerized Provider Order Entry
Electronic Health Record
Decision Support
Results Reporting/Viewing Systems
Electronic Prescribing (incl. Barcoding)
Mobile Computing
Data Exchange Networks/Community Health
      Information Network
Patient Decision Support/Consumer Health
      Informatics
Communication Systems
Administrative
Knowledge/Information Retrieval Systems
Data Collection/Data Summary Systems
Telemedicine
HIT in general

IOM Categories

Documentation (health information and
      data storage)
Results management
Order entry management
Decision support
Electronic communication and connectivity
Patient support
Administrative processes
Reporting and population health management

Types of Healthcare Organization Settings

Hospital/inpatient
Outpatient/ambulatory
Integrated delivery Network (IDN)
Emergency room
Nursing home
Patient home
Pediatrics
Pharmacy
Internet

Study Design
    Descriptive:
    (Most of these articles do not have summaries; citations only.)
    Quantitative

    Hypothesis testing:

    List all hypothesis testing articles

      With intervention, with concurrent comparison group:
      RCT
      CCT
      Control before/after
      Cohort
      Case control

      With intervention, without concurrent comparison group:
      Pre-Post
      Time series
      Historical control

      No intervention:
      Cross sectional
      Case study with concurrent control

    Predictive analysis:
    Cost effectiveness
    Cost-benefit

    Review:
    Systematic/MA

Health System HIT Leaders

Intermountain
Partners
Regenstrief
Veterans Administration
UK's NHS
Kaiser
Vanderbilt University

Cost and Benefit Outcomes

Impact on patient safety
Impact on patient satisfaction
Impact on health care effectiveness
      and quality
Impact on efficiency, utilization, and costs
Impact on healthcare access


       
 
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