Revolutionizing Health Care Through Information Technology : Report to the President by the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee

The Pres. Info. Tech. Advisory Comm. (PITAC) spent 8 months studying one of the most fundamental & pervasive problems of health care delivery: the paper-based med. record. They heard from health care providers & practitioners that the potential of info. tech. to reduce the number of med. errors, reduce costs, & improve patient care is enormous. However, there are significant barriers to innovation that will require Federal leadership to overcome. This report contains recommend. for a framework for a 21st-century health care info. infrastructure that revolutionizes med. records systems: promoting the electronic health record, clinical decision support, & computerized provider order entry; & promoting secure, private, interoperable health info. exchange.Benioff, Marc R. is the author of 'Revolutionizing Health Care Through Information Technology : Report to the President by the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756748647 and ISBN 075674864X.