Most work seems to be on how IT makes life easier for clinicians .

Some of the most heaavily promoted work in this area has come out of the
Prodigy project. Not sure how much of this is actually published.

BNF would be interested participating if you want to get a group together.
Sounds like a good project for BMIS

Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Humber [mailto:mh@...]
> Sent: 08 April 2003 12:51
> To: bmis-members@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [bmis-members] The role of IT and patient outcomes -
> any data?
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a colleague in the United States Department of Health
> and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and
> Quality (AHRQ) who is interested in looking at the role of IT
> and patient outcomes.
>
> For me, looking at the role of IT and patient outcomes would
> be an extremely exciting project - not only for all of the
> obvious reasons, but also to aid in the process to make
> Health/Medical Informatics (HI) a "professional" discipline.
> I'm sure that hard evidence showing the correlation between
> IT and patient outcomes would aid this tremendously.
>
> Does anybody know of this type of work already being carried
> out or whether anyone has any data that could be useful for
> the project?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Michael.
>
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> Michael Humber
> Health Informatics Manager
> BMJ Knowledge
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