EHR Resources

Updated  May 4, 2012

The goal of this page is to share information on electronic health records.  It is divided into the following sections: News, Resources & Information, Reports & Surveys, Blogs, Journal List, and Special Topics.  If you have suggestions for additions, please submit them using the contact form.

General

News - online magazines and websites that offer breaking news and coverage of current events in health information technology.
CMIO.NET
eWeek Healthcare IT
Government Health IT
Healthcare IT News
iHealthBeat
InformationWeek Healthcare

Resources & Information – sites that offer information, guidelines, tutorials and other assistance to those who wish to learn more about electronic health records and health information technology.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality HIT
American Academy of Family Physicians HIT Center
California  Health Care Foundation
Clinical Informatics Wiki
American College of Physicians HIT
American EHR Partners
e-Health Initiative
Healthcare  Information and Management Systems Society
Stack Exchange HIT

Blogs
EMR and  HIPAA
Health Intersections
Health IT Buzz
Healthcare  Standards
HIStalk Blog
HL7 Watch
Life as a Healthcare CIO
Microsoft Health Blog

Reports & Surveys – major national reports that address trends and issues related to the application of information technology in healthcare.
Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, Institute of Medicine, 2011
Driving Quality—A Health IT Assessment Framework for Measurement, National Quality Forum, 2010
Realizing The Full Potential Of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare For Americans: The Path Forward, President’s Council Of Advisors On Science And Technology, 2010
Challenges in Ethics, Safety, Best Practices, and Oversight Regarding HIT Vendors, Their Customers, and Patients: A Report of an AMIA Special Task Force, American Medical Informatics Association, 2010
National Progress Report on eHealth 2010, eHealth Initiative, 2010
Computational Technology for Effective Health Care: Immediate Steps and Strategic Directions, National Research Council, 2009

Journal List – research journals that focus on biomedical informatics and health information technology.
Applied Clinical Informatics
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Cancer Informatics
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Electronic Journal of Health Informatics
Health Affairs
Health Informatics Journal
Informatics in Primary Care
International Journal of Medical Informatics
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Journal of Medical Systems
Methods of Information in Medicine
Online Journal of Nursing Informatics

Special Topics

This section addresses specific research issues such as workflow, usability, architecture/design, and security.  It consists of pages and resource lists. Resource lists provide links to topic-specific resources (e.g. books, web sites) and bibliographies of research articles.  Resource lists that have grown too large  to remain on the main EHR Resources page are placed on separate topic-specific pages.

Pages
Adoption and Implementation
Usability [New]
Security [New]