Additional Health Information Technology (Health IT) Reading Material
Additional reading material about health information technology (Health IT) and its associated initiatives and debates is provided below.
These links will take you off the AMA Web site. The AMA is not responsible for the content of other Web sites.
Patient rights and privacy:
- The Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) provides many educational resources on HIPAA, including articles, guides, and fact sheets.
- The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a 2007 report on Health IT and privacy protection. (PDF)
- The Markle Foundation's Connecting for Health initiative has developed principles for patient privacy and data protection (PDF) throughout clinical data exchange.
- Connecting for Health has also written material on patients' rights to access (PDF) their own records.
EHR adoption and implementation:
- Health Affairs published an informative article which examines EHR value in solo or small group practices.
- Various strategies for implementing Health IT (PDF) are weighed in an interesting Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) paper.
- Health IT and E-health's biggest issues and concerns are summarized in an informative Computer World article from March of 2007.
- Tips for EHR implementation success summarized in HealthLeaders Media, March 2007.
Health IT donation to physician practices:
- HHS has released information regarding the relaxation of the Stark Rule and anti-kickback regulation for donation of Health IT to physician practices.
- Read about IT contracts. AMNews: Jan. 14, 2008. Don't just sign whatever the EMR vendor provides
EHR certification and standards:
- Government Health IT published an article on personal health record (PHR) certification debates.
Pay-for-performance programs:
- Read about the AMA's Physician Consortium and its development of performance measures.
- Read about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and their pay-for-performance programs.
- A short article was recently released by Modern Healthcare outlining debate over EHR incentives.
