The Diffusion and Value of Healthcare Information Technolgy

Аннотация

This report presents research on the diffusion and value of healthcare information technology (HIT). It is part of a larger RAND Corporation study that examined the value of HIT and policy options available to promote HIT, if and when such promotion seems appropriate. Future reports from the larger study are anticipated to be published in the middle of 2005. Healthcare faces multiple problems, including high and rising expenditures, in- consistent quality, and gaps in care and access. Healthcare information technology, and especially complex electronic health records (EHRs), have been thought to be possible partial solutions to those problems.