H.I.T. or Miss: Lessons Learned from Health Information Technology Implementations
Author: Jonathan Leviss, MD
Description: In H.I.T. or Miss: Lessons Learned from Health Information Technology Implementations, the editors—all of whom have led successful electronic health record (EHR) and Health Information Technology (HIT) projects—have collected case studies of HIT implementations that didn't go as planned, offering expert insight into key obstacles that must be overcome to leverage IT and modernize and transform healthcare.
Through their study of HIT implementations that failed, the editors document, catalogue, and share key lessons that all project managers of HIT, health system leaders in informatics and technology, hospital executives, policy makers, and service and technology providers must learn in order to succeed with HIT.
H.I.T. or Miss presents a model to discuss HIT failures in a safe and protected manner, provding an opporutnity to focus on the lessons offered by a failed initiative as opposed to worrying about potential retribution for exposing a project as having failed.
Key Features:
- Presents 17 de-identified, author-anonymous case studies that highlight specific failtures in health information techonology projects - Author's analysis and editor's commentary on each case - Lessons learned presented for each case - Appendixes include an easily searchable listing of cases by project type and lessons learned, an extensive bibliography of resources, and full text of appliciable AHIMA and government resources.
The editor and associate editors all served on the 2007 leadership board of the Clinical Information Systems Working Group of the American Medical informatics Association (AMIA).
H.I.T. or Miss: Lessons Learned from Health Information Technology Implementations