National Research Council report on health care information technology report released today 1/9

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Joseph Traub <traub () cs columbia edu>
Date: January 10, 2009 3:17:07 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: Joseph Traub <traub () cs columbia edu>
Subject: National Research Council report on health care information  
technology report released today 1/9

Dave,

I think this is a very timely report, especially with the new
administration's interest in this issue. I hope you'll post.

Joe
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Joseph Traub, Chair
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Academies
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The pre-publication copy of  the National Research Council's report on
health care information technology, entitled "Computational Technology
for Effective Health Care: Immediate Steps and Strategic Directions"  is
now available at

www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/reports/comptech_prepub.pdf
<http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/reports/comptech_prepub.pdf> .  Undertaken
under the auspices of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
of the National Academies, the project was chaired by Bill Stead of
Vanderbilt University and a member of the Institute of Medicine.  (The
file is about 300 KB in PDF.)



In brief, this report finds that current efforts aimed at the nationwide
deployment of health care IT will not be sufficient to achieve the
vision of 21st century health care, and may even set back the cause if
these efforts continue wholly without change from their present course,
and that success in this regard will require greater emphasis on
providing cognitive support for health care providers and for patients
and family caregivers on the part of computer science and
health/biomedical informatics researchers.  Vendors, health care
institutions, and government will also have to pay attention to
cognitive support, which refers to computer-based tools and systems that
offer clinicians and patients assistance for thinking about and solving
problems related to specific instances of health care.



The prepublication version  is available for free, but it will undergo
further editorial correction before it is published in book form, which
will occur in about 8 to 10 weeks .











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