Component 5: Unit 2: Evolution of Health IT: The Modern Era

Component 5: Unit 2: Evolution of Health IT: The Modern Era

Description:

This unit describes the evolution of health IT from 1990 – 2016.

Objectives:

  1. Discuss factors that led to increasing clinical use of computers from 1990 to the present, including the HITECH Act of 2009. and the Affordable Care Act of 2010
  2. Discuss key influences on health IT developments including the Internet, HIPAA, and the Institute of Medicine reports.
  3. Discuss the focus of health IT in the late 90s up to the present.
  4. Discuss the role of health IT in clinical and translational research and precision medicine.
  5. Discuss why there is more receptivity to the use of Health IT now than during the previous 50 years.

Component 5; Unit 2; Lecture 2a comp5_unit2a_lecture_slides

The Environment (21:45): 1) Changes in the general environment from 1990-2016; 2) Changes in the healthcare environment from1990-2016; 3) Changes in healthcare organizations from 1990-2016

Component 5; Unit 2; Lecture 2b comp5_unit2b_lecture_slides

Key Stakeholders (16:27): 1) The practice of medicine in the modern era; 2) Academic medicine and the role of Informatics; 3) Impact of changes over the last 50 years

Suggested Readings

Berner ES, Detmer DE, Simborg D.  Will the wave finally break? A brief view of the adoption of electronic medical records in the United States.  J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005;12(1):3-7.  Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC543824/

Kohn LT, Corrigan JM and Donaldson MS, (eds). To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System . Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, Washington DC: National Academies Press, 1999. Free Executive Summary.  Available from: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9728.html

Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century,Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001.  Free Executive Summary.  Available from: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10027

The White House. The Precision Medicine Initiative.  Available from: https://www.whitehouse.gov/precision-medicine

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