Health IT and Electronic Health Information Exchange
Stakeholders in our nation's health care system are investing in health IT to improve efficiency, enhance quality of care, and reduce health care costs. RTI brings together multidisciplinary teams of health care experts to assist agencies, foundations, and other health care organizations to identify, measure, and evaluate the benefits and expected outcomes of this investment. Our recognized health care expertise—in health informatics, health services research, health economics, finance, policy, quality measurement, and program evaluation—combined with a thorough understanding of health IT and electronic health information exchange, ensure that our clients have the tools and knowledge to successfully meet their goals.
Focus Areas
- Electronic health records and personal health records
- Health information exchange
- Clinical decision support
- Health informatics
- Information and communication technology in international health
Capabilities
Assessment, planning, adoption, and evaluation
- Innovative and creative approaches using multidisciplinary teams
- Experience in health IT policy considerations and implications
- Collaborations with key health IT and HIE organizations, national and international experts, and state and local stakeholders
- Project management and strategic planning and guidance
Technical assistance
- Strategic planning
- Environmental scanning
- Information synthesis and dissemination through toolkits, educational webinars, identifying best practices, reference libraries, communities of practice
Health information exchange policy and implementation
- Policy work on privacy and security for HIE
- Collaborations in state-level legal research on access, disclosure, laboratory, and prescription laws
- Management of large collaborative teaming arrangements and outreach and communications
- Strong relationships with several functioning health information organizations (HIOs)
Projects
- Data Management/Implementation and Monitoring Support for the Electronic Health Record Demonstration
- Professional Services Contract to Develop Model Anti-Fraud Requirements for Electronic Health Records
- Developing and Testing an Adoption Guide for Patient-Centered and Efficiency Innovations in Health Care
- National Survey to Measure the Adoption of Electronic Health Records Among Physician and Group Practices
- Computer Based Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Tools for Gene-based Tests Used in Breast Cancer
- Development of a National Prototype: Continuity Assessment Record and Evaluation (CARE)
- Privacy and Security Solutions for Interoperable Health Information Exchange
- Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration
- State Outcomes Measurement and Management Systems
- Evaluation of the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration Project
- Technical Assistance for Health Information Technology and Health Information Exchange in Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program
- Examine the Health Outcome and Cost Savings for High Blood Pressure in Federally Qualified Health Centers that Implement the Chronic Care Model
- An Interactive Preventive Health Record (IPHR) to Promote Patient-Centered Care
- Strategies to Provide Information and Education for Patients, Their Family Members, Friends, and Caregivers with Respect to Hemotologic Cancers
- Medicare Prescription Drug Data Development: Methods for Improving Patient Safety and Pharmacovigilance Using Observational Data
- Project Health Design
- Health Information Technology in the Nursing Home
- The BioSense Initiative to Improve Early Event Detection
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