Technology

The TELEMACO project successfully used telemedicine to establish a healthcare continuity from hospital to territory in remote areas of the Lombardy region of Italy.

Online prescription management accounts may help promote medication adherence, as utilizing patients had a higher proportion of days covered than nonusers.

Cell phone“based text messaging may be used to feasibly support chronic disease management and engagement in diabetes self-care behaviors for some patients.

Small primary care practices reap some organizational and quality of care improvements from electronic health records; however, challenges persist in achieving meaningful use standards.

This is a comparative effectiveness study that evaluates the safety effects of 2 types of commercially available electronic prescribing systems.

Health information technology that is implemented as part of a multifaceted quality improvement initiative can lead to improvements in hypertension care and outcomes.

A qualitative process evaluation attributes the success of a technology-driven hypertension intervention to the combination of multiple intervention components framed as quality improvement.

Automated telephone reminders resulted in a small but significant increase in adherence to inhaled corticosteroids among adult asthma patients in a large managed care organization.

The authors discuss the wide-reaching impact of legislation spurring the adoption of health information technology and provide an overview of the content found in this special issue.

Broad enthusiasm exists among hospitals for participation in Meaningful Use. However, many hospitals have a long road ahead to implement the advanced systems required for the program.

Few US hospitals exchange data electronically with unaffiliated providers. Factors associated with competitiveness appear to influence hospitals' decisions to engage in clinical data exchange.

Physician use of EHRs with CDS is associated with increased blood pressure control and lower mean systolic blood pressure across US primary care visits.

The relationship between electronic medical record use and efficiency/productivity during office visits varied by type of service and reason for visit.

Dr. Sachin Jain, Office of the National Coordinator for HIT, opens the floor to the Healthcare Innovations and HIT Q&A Session at the National Press Club.

Dr. Deneen Vojta, UnitedHealthcare, discusses her paper and answers questions at the Healthcare Innovations and HIT Q&A Session at the National Press Club.

Dr. Aaron McKethan, US Dept of Health and Human Services, discusses his paper and answers questions at the National Press Club.

Dr. Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, US Dept of Health and Human Services, discusses her papers and answers questions.

High rates of health information technology use by physicians were only modestly associated with better knowledge of drug costs.