Health information technology (Health IT) allows comprehensive management of medical information and its secure exchange between health care consumers and providers.
Broad use of health IT will:
Improve health care quality; Prevent medical errors; Reduce health care costs; Increase administrative efficiencies; Decrease paperwork; and expand access to affordable care.
Improve health care quality; Prevent medical errors; Reduce health care costs; Increase administrative efficiencies; Decrease paperwork; and expand access to affordable care.
Interoperable health IT will improve individual patient care, but it will also bring many public health benefits including:
Early detection of infectious disease outbreaks around the country; Improved tracking of chronic disease management; and Evaluation of health care based on value enabled by the collection of de-identified price and quality information that can be compared.
Making Health Information Technology:
Personal Health information technologies can be tools that help individuals maintain their health through better management of their health information. Health IT will help consumers gather all of their health information in one place so they can thoroughly understand it and share it securely with their health care providers so they get the care that best fits their individual needs.
Health IT can help to improve public health one individual at a time by building partnerships between health care consumers and providers across the country.
Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN):
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The Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) is the critical portion of the health IT agenda intended to provide a secure, nationwide, interoperable health information infrastructure that will connect providers, consumers, and others involved in supporting health and healthcare. The NHIN will enable health information to follow the consumer, be available for clinical decision making, and support appropriate use of healthcare information beyond direct patient care so as to improve health.
The Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) is the critical portion of the health IT agenda intended to provide a secure, nationwide, interoperable health information infrastructure that will connect providers, consumers, and others involved in supporting health and healthcare. The NHIN will enable health information to follow the consumer, be available for clinical decision making, and support appropriate use of healthcare information beyond direct patient care so as to improve health.
The NHIN seeks to achieve these goals by:
Developing capabilities for standards-based, secure data exchange nationally; improving the coordination of care information among hospitals, laboratories, physicians offices, pharmacies, and other providers; ensuring appropriate information is available at the time and place of care; ensuring that consumers’ health information is secure and confidential; giving consumers new capabilities for managing and controlling their personal health records as well as providing access to their health information from EHRs and other sources; reducing risks from medical errors and supporting the delivery of appropriate, evidence-based medical care; lowering healthcare costs resulting from inefficiencies, medical errors, and incomplete patient information; promoting a more effective marketplace, greater competition, and increased choice through accessibility to accurate information on healthcare costs, quality, and outcomes.
The Office of the National Coordinator is advancing the NHIN as a ‘network of networks,” built out of state and regional health information exchanges (HIEs) and other networks so as to support the exchange of health information by connecting these networks and the systems they, in turn, connect.
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