AHRQ March 15, 2017
Determining whether digitized information’s enormous power can improve patient care is at the root of many serious conversations about health information technology (IT). The good news is that evidence is mounting that using health IT can facilitate improvements in quality of care and patient safety.
Health IT’s proponents—and I am one—have long predicted that the widespread implementation and meaningful use of health IT could bring significant benefits to the field. We’ve long envisioned a time when it could help streamline clinical processes for physicians and nurses, contribute huge swaths of valuable data for researchers, and enable health systems to more efficiently manage patients’ health and payment information. In recent years, significant progress towards each of those goals has been achieved.
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