Resources

Clinical Informatics' Contributions

Healthcare Transparency:

• Why Seek Healthcare Transparency?
• What is Healthcare Transparency?
• Transparency Requires Service Definitions
• Transparency Must Start Somewhere
• Making Healthcare Quality Transparent
• Transparency Requires Healthcare Outcomes
• Not your Father’s Healthcare
• Can Transparency Start Today?
• How Much Was That?
• Transparent Customer Service
• The Meaning of Service
• Transparency Summary and Invitation

Federal Comments

ONC Information Blocking Rule

HIMSS Blog:

• Preventing Risk to Patient Safety When Implementing Health IT
• Goal Setting for Safe Use of Health IT
• How Might Vendors Engage End Users to Mitigate Risks to Patient Safety?
• How Might Healthcare Organizations Engage End-Users to Mitigate Risks to Patient Safety?
• What Steps Might Vendors Take to Reduce Design Errors?
• Factors in Reducing Risk of EHR-Related Adverse Events
• What Might Happen in an Organization Not Failure-Ready?
• What Happens When??? Contingency Planning

HIMSS Podcasts:

• Impact of ARRA Incentives and EHR Adoption
• Learning from HIT Failures

Books

• H.I.T. or Miss: Lessons Learned from Health Information Technology Implementations (AHIMA)
• Information Privacy in the Evolving Healthcare Environment (HIMSS)

Time to Reassess MU (Clinical Innovation+Technology)

To Solve a Complex Healthcare Challenge, Focus on Your Mission

Office Practice Adoption of Hospital EHRs: A Community Outreach Guide for Providers and Practices (HIMSS)

AMDIS Consensus on Inpatient Electronic Health Record Documentation (Applied Clinical Informatics Journal)

EHR Documentation Best Practices: Consensus Recommendations to Industry for Electronic Health Record Documentation (HIMSS)

Blueprint for an Effective and Sustainable Healthcare System (Yuba Sutter Healthcare Council)

Do EHRs Increase Medical Liability?

Response to 2019 OCR Request for Information about HIPAA

Electronic Health Records (EHR)

EHR Usability

Turf: Usability Testing

Quality and Patient Safety

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

National Quality Forum (NQF)

Associations

• American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO)
• American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
• American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL) [formerly American College of Physician Executives (ACPE)]
• American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
• American Hospital Association (AHA)
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• American Medical Group Association (AMGA)
• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
• American Nurses Association (ANA)
• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS)
• Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
• Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)
• National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO)
• National Pharmacists Association (NPhA)