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From the Editor

Pursuing Health IT: The Delicate Dance Of Government And The Market John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Economics Of Health Information Technology

PROLOGUE: The Economics Of Health Information Technology [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Can Electronic Medical Record Systems Transform Health Care? Potential Health Benefits, Savings, And Costs Richard Hillestad, James Bigelow, Anthony Bower, Federico Girosi, Robin Meili, Richard Scoville, and Roger Taylor [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Executive Summary] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Electronic Medical Records And Health Care Transformation James M. Walker [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Hope And Hype: Predicting The Impact Of Electronic Medical Records David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Savings In Electronic Medical Record Systems? Do It For The Quality Clifford Goodman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Value Of Electronic Health Records In Solo Or Small Group Practices Robert H. Miller, Christopher West, Tiffany Martin Brown, Ida Sim, and Chris Ganchoff [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicare’s Next Voyage: Encouraging Physicians To Adopt Health Information Technology Sheera Rosenfeld, Cathy Bernasek, and Dan Mendelson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Using Quality Incentives To Drive Physician Adoption Of Health Information Technology Glenn Hackbarth and Karen Milgate [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

Action Through Collaboration: A Conversation With David Brailer Robert Cunningham [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Implementation

PROLOGUE: Implementing Health Information Technology [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

E-Prescribing And The Medicare Modernization Act Of 2003 Douglas S. Bell and Maria A. Friedman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Exchanging Health Information: Local Distribution, National Coordination John Halamka, J. Marc Overhage, Lygeia Ricciardi, Wes Rishel, Clay Shirky, and Carol Diamond [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Physicians And Ambulatory Electronic Health Records David W. Bates [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: State And Community-Based Efforts To Foster Interoperability Mark E. Frisse [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Regulatory And Policy Barriers To Effective Clinical Data Exchange: Lessons Learned From MedsInfo-ED Lawrence K. Gottlieb, Elliot M. Stone, Diane Stone, Lynne A. Dunbrack, and John Calladine [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplemental Exhibit] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The Making And Adoption Of Health Data Standards W. Ed Hammond [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplemental Exhibit 1] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The Indiana Network For Patient Care: A Working Local Health Information Infrastructure Clement J. McDonald, J. Marc Overhage, Michael Barnes, Gunther Schadow, Lonnie Blevins, Paul R. Dexter, Burke Mamlin, and the INPC Management Committee [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Exhibits] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Information Technology Policy

PROLOGUE: Policy Issues Surrounding Health Information Technology [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Strategic Action In Health Information Technology: Why The Obvious Has Taken So Long Edward H. Shortliffe [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Promoting Health Information Technology: Is There A Case For More-Aggressive Government Action? Roger Taylor, Anthony Bower, Federico Girosi, James Bigelow, Kateryna Fonkych, and Richard Hillestad [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Technical Executive Summary] [Reprints & Permissions]

Dot-Gov: Market Failure And The Creation Of A National Health Information Technology System J.D. Kleinke [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Federal Investment In Health Information Technology: How To Motivate It? Anthony G. Bower [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Wiring Health Care George C. Halvorson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Achieving U.S. Health Information Technology Adoption: The Need For A Third Hand Blackford Middleton [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

TRENDS: Health Benefits In 2005: Premium Increases Slow Down, Coverage Continues To Erode Jon Gabel, Gary Claxton, Isadora Gil, Jeremy Pickreign, Heidi Whitmore, Benjamin Finder, Samantha Hawkins, and Diane Rowland [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Functional Gaps In Attaining A National Health Information Network Rainu Kaushal, David W. Bates, Eric G. Poon, Ashish K. Jha, David Blumenthal, and the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement NHIN Working Group [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: The Missing Link: Bridging The Patient–Provider Health Information Gap Paul C. Tang and David Lansky [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Transforming Care: Medical Practice Design And Information Technology Charles M. Kilo [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Exhibit 1] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Private Plans In Medicare: Another Look Marsha Gold [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Full Code Boris Veysman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Do NOT Resuscitate David Muller [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Medical Groups’ Adoption Of Electronic Health Records And Information Systems David Gans, John Kralewski, Terry Hammons, and Bryan Dowd [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Which Physicians And Practices Are Using Electronic Medical Records? Catharine W. Burt and Jane E. Sisk [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Premium Subsidy Programs: Who Enrolls, And How Do They Fare? Janet B. Mitchell, Susan G. Haber, and Sonja Hoover [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

REPORT: Toward A High Performance Health System: The Commonwealth Fund’s New Commission Karen Davis [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [GrantWatch Online 30th September][GrantWatch Online 17 October][GrantWatch Online 31 October] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

CONFERENCE REPORT: The Adoption Gap: Health Information Technology In Small Physician Practices Jason Lee, Carol Cain, Scott Young, Nancy Chockley, and Helen Burstin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Publications & Reports [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

Reform Follows Function Ruth Levine [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Perfect Storm: Nursing In Twenty-First-Century America S. Robert Hernandez [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Lester Breslow: More Than A Half-Century In Public Health Elizabeth Fee [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Ethics And Futility Lawrence Schneiderman and Todd Gilmer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The FDA And The Safety Of Medical Products Janet Woodcock [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

End-Of-Life Options Joanne Lynn [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

End-Of-Life Options: Author’s Reply Jerald Winakur [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Vaccine Policy Challenges Laura M. Segal [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Vaccine Risk And Benefit In The Developing World Jerald C. Sadoff [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Vaccines And The Next Pandemic Louis F. Rossiter [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Errata

Erratum [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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