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Chapter 14, Health Information Technology What does HIT include? Define health informatics What are barriers to adopting HIT? Explain - clinical decision support, computerized provider order entry, electronic prescriptions, electronic clinical quality measures Define health information exchange (HIE) How do patients interact with electronic health information? Patient portals Consumer-directed exchange Consumer decision support tools How do insurers use HIT? What interoperability? Issues of privacy and security? Emerging opportunities in HIT

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Ans) HIT includes a variety of integrated data sources, including patient Electronic Medical Records, Decision Support Systems, and Computerized Physician Order Entry for medications.

- Health informatics is the practice of acquiring, studying and managing health data and applying medical concepts in conjunction with health information technology systems to help clinicians provide better healthcare.

- Situational barriers included time and financial pressures, unproven return on investment, insufficient access to the internet or to computer technology in the office setting, the prohibitive cost of information technology for small practices, and software not being supportive of pediatric practice needs.

- A clinical decision support system (CDSS) is a health information technology system that is designed to provide physicians and other health professionals with clinical decision support (CDS), that is, assistance with clinical decision-making tasks

Computerized physician order entry, sometimes referred to as computerized provider order entry or computerized provider order management, is a process of electronic entry of medical practitioner instructions for the treatment of patients under his or her care.

E - prescribing, or electronic prescribing is a technology framework that allows physicians and other medical practitioners to write and send prescriptions to a participating pharmacy electronically instead of using handwritten or faxed notes or calling in prescriptions.

Electronic clinical quality measures (CQMs) are tools that help measure and track the quality of health care services that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) provide, as generated by a provider's electronic health record (EHR).