Articles
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Articles
- Bernstam, E. V., Smith, J. W., & Johnson, T. R. (2010). What is Biomedical Informatics? Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 43(1), 104-110.
- Bower, A. G. (2005). The Diffusion and Value of Healthcare Information Technology. Retrieved from RAND Corporation.[
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- Chaudry, B., Wang, J., Wu, S., et al. (2010). Systematic Review: Impact of Health Information Technology on Quality, Efficiency, and Costs of Medical Care. Annals of Internal Medicine, 144(10), 742-752. []
- Congressional Budget Office. (2008). Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology. (CBO Publication No. 2976). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.[]
- Congressional Budget Office Paper: Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology
- Girosi, Federico, Robin Meili, and Richard Scoville. 2005.Extrapolating Evidence of Health Information Technology Savings and Costs . Santa Monica, Calif. RAND Corporation []
- Goedert, J. (2011, February). Tackling the Health I.T. Workforce Shortage. Health Data Management Magazine.
- Goldzweig CL, Towfligh A, Maglione M et al. Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology: New Trends From the Literature. Health Affairs 2009 28 (2) w282-w293 []
- Hersh, W. (2009). A Stimulus to Define Informatics and Health Information Technology. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 9, 24. doi:10.1186/1472-6947-9-24 []
- Himmelstein DU, Wright A, Woolhandler S. Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study. Am J Med 2009; 123(1):40-46 []
- Larson, C. (2009, April 11). Connecting the Dots of Medicine and Data. The New York Times.
- RAND Corporation. (2005). Health Information Technology: Can HIT Lower Cost and Improve Quality? (RAND Research Brief Series). Santa Monica, CA: Author. []
- Shcherbatykh I, Holbrook A, Thabane L et al. Methodologic Issues In Health Informatics Trials: The Complexities of Complex Interventions. JAMIA 2008; 15:575-580 []
- Solovy, A., Hoppszallern, S., & Brown, S. (2008). Are Patients Happier at Most Wired Hospitals? Hospital and Health Networks Magazine, 7, 30-45. []
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. (June 3, 2008). The ONC-Coordinated. Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2008-2012. []
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Interesting/Innovative Applications and Resources
Journals
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: "Bimonthly journal of the AMIA that covers, research and clinical applications. Targeted towards the IM/IT physician or professional." Journal is included as part of AMIA membership.
- BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making: an open-access free online journal publishing peer reviewed research articles. This journal is part of BioMed Central, an online publisher of 188 online free full text articles.
- The Open Medical Informatics Journal: an open-access online journal that publishes Medical Informatics research articles and reviews. Bentham Science publishes 89 online and print journals as well as 200 online open -access journals.
- Journal of Medical Internet Research: an independent open-access online journal that publishes articles related to medicine and the Internet. The articles are free to read in an html format but there is a cost to download articles in a pdf format or to become a member. Articles tend to be practical and not theoretical in nature.
- Health Affairs is the leading journal of health policy thought and research. The peer-reviewed journal was founded in 1981 under the aegis of Project HOPE, a nonprofit international health education organization. Health Affairs explores health policy issues of current concern in both domestic and international spheres.
- International
Journal of Medical Informatics: The Journal provides an international medium for dissemination of original results and interpretative reviews concerning the field of medical informatics. The Journal emphasizes the evaluation of systems in healthcare settings
- CIN (Computers, Informatics, Nursing) For 25 years, Computers Informatics Nursing (CIN) has been at the interface of the science of information and the art of nursing, publishing articles on the latest developments in nursing informatics, research, and educational technology.
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Societies and Professional Associations
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Institute of Medicine of the National Academies: A Collection of Reports
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century: "Major work that covers performance expectations for the 21st century health care system, 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships, a suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality and key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems." Free PDF summary is available on the site.
To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System: "Sentinel book that describes in detail the patient safety issues facing American Medicine. They begin the dialogue about how information technology can be part of the solution." Free PDF summary is available on the site.
Updated February 29, 2012
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