Research Articles
THINC collaborates with independent evaluations by Weill Cornell Medical College to pursue a number of studies that measure the impact of technologies and health care improvement programs. These quantify the clinical and economic value of initiatives and illuminate the impact they have on health care quality, costs, medication safety, consumer satisfaction, provider experience and implications for health care policy. So far, we've found that:
- Use of electronic prescribing significantly decreases the frequency of medication errors.
- Use of an electronic portal for laboratory result viewing significantly increases quality of care.
- Most health care consumers in the Hudson Valley are supportive of electronic health information exchange, both in terms of participating themselves and having their physicians participate.
- Physician leadership is critical for community transformation.
See the articles below for detailed descriptions of research findings to date.
Electronic Health Records and Ambulatory Quality of Care
Lisa M. Kern, MD, MPH, Yolanda Barron, MS, Rina V. Dhopeshwarkar, MPH, Alison M. Edwards, MStat, Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH with the HITEC Investigators
Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM) October 2012
Health Care Consumers' Preferences Around Health Information Exchange
Rina V. Dhopeshwarkar, MPH, Lisa M. Kern, MD, MPH, Heather C. O'Donnell, MD, MS, Alison M. Edwards, MStat, and Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH
Annals of Family Medicine: September/October 2012, 10 (5)
www.annfammed.org/content/10/5/428.full
Health Information Exhchange and Ambulatory Quality of Care
L.M. Kern, Y. Barron, R.V. Dhopeshwarkar, R. Kausahal
ACI: Applied Clinical Informatics
Volume 3: Issue 2 2012
Electronic Result Viewing and Quality of Care in Small Group Practices.
Barron, Yolanda; Blair, A. John; Salkowe, Jerry; Chambers, Deborah; Callahan, Mark A.; Kaushal, Rainu; Kern, Lisa M.
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine (0884-8734)
4/1/2008. Vol.23,Iss.4;p.405-410
Electronic Prescribing Improves Medication Safety in Community-Based Office Practices
Kaushal, Rainu; Kern, Lisa M. ; Barrón, Yolanda; Quaresimo, Jill; Abramson, Erika L.
Journal of General Internal Medicine
26 February 2010
Measuring the Effects of Health Information Technology on Quality of Care: A Novel Set of Proposed Metrics for Electronic Quality Reporting
Kern, Lisa M.; Dhopeshwarkar, Rina; Barrón, Yolanda; Wilcox, Adam; Pincus, Harold; Kaushal, Rainu
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
Volume 35, Number 7, July 2009, pp. 359-369(11)
Achieving the Potential of Health Information Technology
Burstin, Helen R. (editorial)
Journal of General Internal Medicine
J Gen Intern Med 23(4):502–4
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-008-0552-x
Society of General Internal Medicine 2008
The Approaching Revolution in Quality Measurement
Bates, David W. (editorial)
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
Volume 35, Number 7, July 2009, p. 358(1)
