Background: Despite increasing emphasis on the role of clinical decision-support systems
(CDSSs) for improving care and reducing costs, evidence to support widespread use is …

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009
that was signed into law as part of the “stimulus package” represents the largest US initiative …

Background Laboratory testing is the single highest-volume medical activity and drives
clinical decision-making across medicine. However, the overall landscape of inappropriate …

New rapid molecular diagnostic technologies for infectious diseases enable expedited
accurate microbiological diagnoses. However, diagnostic stewardship and antimicrobial …

Background: Experts consider health information technology key to improving efficiency and
quality of health care. Purpose: To systematically review evidence on the effect of health …

ContextDevelopers of health care software have attributed improvements in patient care to
these applications. As with any health care intervention, such claims require confirmation in …

While evidence-based medicine has increasingly broad-based support in health care, it
remains difficult to get physicians to actually practice it. Across most domains in medicine …

This essential text provides a readable yet sophisticated overview of the basic concepts of
information technologies as they apply in healthcare. Spanning areas as diverse as the …

Americans should be able to count on receiving health care that is safe. To achieve this, a
new health care delivery system is needed â€" a system that both prevents errors from …

PURPOSE: Electronic medical record systems improve the quality of patient care and
decrease medical errors, but their financial effects have not been as well documented. The …