Additional Resources for Health Technology Assessment

• AHRQ National Resource Center for Health Information Technology - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) Lead Federal agency charged with improving the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. AHRQ supports health services research that will improve the quality of health care and promote evidence-based decision making. Site provides Information on programs that promote the use of health information technology. Central repository for research findings from projects developing, testing, and using health IT applications.
  
  
• California Healthcare Foundation iHealth & Technology Internet technology is still fairly new and untested in health care, making experimentation, analysis and evaluation critically important. CHCF regularly conducts research and commissions surveys and reports on emerging technology trends and related policy and regulatory issues. Recent publications provided
  
  
• The Center for Healthcare Information Management (CHIM)
  
  
• CMS Health Information Technology- (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)) - DHHS currently has a 10-year plan to transform the delivery of health care by building a new health information infrastructure, including electronic health records and a new network to link health records nationwide. CMS seeks to share information on the effectiveness of healthcare technologies that serve to bring effective innovations to patients more rapidly and to help doctors and patients use the treatments we pay for more effectively.
  
  
• DHHS HealthiT Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Health information technology (Health IT) allows comprehensive management of medical information and its secure exchange between health care consumers and providers.
  
  
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
  
  
• HRSA Health Information Technology Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Information Technology site promotes the widespread availability and use of digital networks to improve access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable.
  
  
• HTA 101 - Introduction to Health Technology Assessment - Health technology assessment (HTA) is the systematic evaluation of properties, effects or other impacts of health technology. This online e-book explains the 10 basic steps of HTA.
  
  
• Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance (JHITA)
  
  
• Key Topic Guide on Electronic Health Records - (Massachusetts Health Data Consortium (MHDA)) - Focuses on initiatives underway to build electronic health records and a national health information network (NHIN).