This Journal of General Internal Medicine AHRQ-sponsored special issue includes a collection of studies and commentaries on how health information technology can improve medical care.
Introduction to the JGIM Special Issue on Health Information Technology
Moving Health Information Technology Forward
Uptake of Electronic Prescribing in Community-Based Practices
Variation in Electronic Prescribing Implementation Among Twelve Ambulatory Practices
Centers Speak Up: The Clinical Context for Health Information Technology in the Ambulatory Care Setting
Employing the Electronic Health Record to Improve Diabetes Care: A Multifaceted Intervention in an Integrated Delivery System
Electronic Medical Record-Assisted Design of a Cluster-Randomized Trial to Improve Diabetes Care and Outcomes
An Electronic Medical Record (EMR)-Based Intervention to Reduce Polypharmacy and Falls in an Ambulatory Rural Elderly Population
Electronic Result Viewing and Quality of Care in Small Group Practices
Application of a Decision Support Tool for Anticoagulation in Patients with Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation
Use of a Handheld Computer Application for Voluntary Medication Event Reporting by Inpatient Nurses and Physicians
Overdose Rate of Drugs Requiring Renal Dose Adjustment: Data Analysis of 4 Years Prescriptions at a Tertiary Teaching Hospital
Impact of Computerized Decision Support on Blood Pressure Management and Control: A Randomized Controlled Trial
A Mixed Method Study of the Merits of E-Prescribing Drug Alerts in Primary Care
Comparison of Electronic Physician Prompts versus Waitroom Case-Finding on Clinical Trial Enrollment
The Effect of Computerized Physician Order Entry with Clinical Decision Support on the Rates of Adverse Drug Events: A Systematic Review
Use of an Interactive, Telephone-based Self-management Support Program to Identify Adverse Events Among Ambulatory Diabetes Patients
Informing Men about Prostate Cancer Screening: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Patient Education Materials
Screening for Chronic Conditions Using a Patient Internet Portal: Recruitment for an Internet-based Primary Care Intervention
Patient Difficulty Using Tablet Computers to Screen in Primary Care
Leveraging Computerized Sign-Out to Increase Error Reporting and Addressing Patient Safety in Graduate Medical Education
Development of a Web-based Resident Profiling Tool to Support Training in Practice-based Learning and Improvement
Reducing Diagnostic Errors through Effective Communication: Harnessing the Power of Information Technology
Health Information Technology Will Shift the Medical Care Paradigm
The Role of Systems Factors in Implementing Health Information Technology
Achieving the Potential of Health Information Technology
The Pervasiveness of Telemedicine: Adoption With or Without a Research Base