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The use of certified EHR technology for electronic exchange of health information to improve quality of health care. The use of certified EHR technology to submit clinical quality and other measures. In other words, providers need to demonstrate their use of certified EHR technology in ways that can be measured significantly in quality and in ...
Health technology assessment (HTA) is a multidisciplinary process that uses systematic and explicit methods to evaluate the properties and effects of a health technology. [1] Health technology is conceived as any intervention ( test , device , medicine , vaccine , procedure , program ) at any point in its lifecycle ( pre-market , regulatory ...
Health information technology (HIT) is "the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, health data, and knowledge for communication and decision making". [8]
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as Obamacare and health information technology health care is entering the digital era. Although with this development it needs to be protected. Both health information and financial information now made digital within the health industry might become a larger target for cyber-crime.
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) (Pub. L. 111–5 (text),§2.A.III & B.4) (a part of the 2009 stimulus package) set meaningful use of interoperable EHR adoption in the health care system as a critical national goal and incentivized EHR adoption.
Primary care has become one key development area for AI technologies. [98] [99] AI in primary care has been used for supporting decision making, predictive modeling, and business analytics. [100] There are only a few examples of AI decision support systems that were prospectively assessed on clinical efficacy when used in practice by physicians.
The removal of the word 'Regulatory' was also a recognition that many Government burdens on business, the third sector and public bodies were not always implemented as legislation or regulations e.g. codes of practice, reporting requirements or funding guidance, and that the impacts of these measures also needed to be assessed. [citation needed]
Health Policy and Technology is a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal that was established in 2012 and published by Elsevier on behalf of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. Professor Wendy L. Currie was the founding Editor-in-Chief, from 2012 to 2017. It is one of two official journals, the other being the Postgraduate Medical Journal.