Health Care Infrastructure

Health Information Technology

Health information technology (HIT) holds the promise of improving the quality and safety of patient care by giving practitioners instant access to patients’ medical records and to evidence-based clinical decision support tools. HIT also has the potential to increase system efficiency by facilitating early intervention in disease processes, reducing medical errors, and allowing more rapid assessment of new technologies. IHP’s work seeks to improve policymakers’ understanding of how HIT improves care from both an analytic perspective and by examining Kaiser Permanente’s own hands-on experience.

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Publications August 2008 "In Focus" brief: Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect™ – Lessons from the Research Literature Brian Raymond Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, Oakland, CA.   April 2008 Preparing For The PHR Brian Raymond, Healthcare Informatics, Web-First Article   April 2008 A Conversation with David Bates, MD, MSc, Chairman of the American Medical Informatics Association Brian Raymond, The Permanente Journal, Volume 12, Number 2   May 2007 "In Focus" brief: Realizing the Transformative Potential of Personal Health Records Brian Raymond, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, Oakland, CA   January 2005 The Kaiser Permanente IT Transformation , Brian Raymond, Healthcare Financial Management Magazine Winter 2004 Making the Business Case for Hospital Information Systems - A Kaiser Permanente Investment Decision , Terhilda Garrido, Brian Raymond, Laura Jamieson, Louise Liang, and Andrew Wiesenthal, Journal of Health Care Finance, Volume 31, Number 2 Fall 2004 Entering the Decade of Health Information Technology , Brian Raymond, MPH, The Permanente Journal, Volume 8, Number 4 Fall 2004 KP HealthConnect as a Transformational Tool , Allan Weiland, MD, The Permanente Journal, Volume 8, Number 4 Fall 2004 Reengineering Care with KP HealthConnect , George C. Halvorson, The Permanente Journal, Volume 8, Number 4 (already on site) July 2004 Issue Brief: Summary of the Evidence of Clinical IT Benefits , Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, Oakland, CA Winter 2003 Fulfilling the Potential of Clinical Information Systems , Robert M. Crane and Brian Raymond, The Permanente Journal, Volume 7, No.1 February 2002 Clinical Information Systems: Achieving the Vision , Brian Raymond and Cynthia Dold, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, Oakland, CA

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