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Potential areas of interest to CRHSP
Potential areas of interest to the CRHSP include, but are not restricted to research
activities that focus on:
Design or implementation of information technologies specifically targeted for healthcare settings, such as electronic medical records, computerized patient order entry systems, electronic prescriptions, telemedicine, and so forth. Clinical experience related to the use of information systems in actual healthcare settings in the form of case studies, action research, ethnography, or other longitudinal methods. Patient, practitioner, and healthcare organizations’ access to computerized health records. Examine the value of new and emerging healthcare information technologies, based on clinical, financial, or operational metrics, in inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, nursing homes, home health, community care centers, and doctor’s offices. Patient and/or caregiver centric design of healthcare information technologies. Design of clinical decision support systems for patients, physicians, or insurance payers that facilitate optimal care and outcomes and to reduce medical errors. Ontologies, taxonomies, and other information systems standards or governance structures to facilitate efficient and accurate inter- and intra-organizational data and information interchange. Techniques and technologies that integrate information to facilitate rapid population-wide healthcare problem detection and prompt effective response. Approaches to integrating related healthcare systems among diverse stakeholders, such as providers, insurers, patients, and so forth. Experiences and lessons from using information technology to delivering healthcare to priority populations, such as low income groups, minority groups, children, the elderly, rural communities, and special needs groups. Barriers faced by rural and small community providers in leveraging healthcare information systems and means of overcoming these barriers. Develop better information about health care quality for patients, caregivers, and providers Develop new measures of quality; and create incentives for providers to improve quality
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