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Report Finds Benefits in Using Health IT To Boost Patient-Centered Care

Leveraging health IT to implement principles of patient-centered care can  lead to improved health care outcomes, according to a report published by the Agency for Healthcare  Research and Quality, American Medical News reports.

Patient-centered care is delivered in a way that takes a patient’s individual  needs and preferences into account.

Report Details

For the report, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University’s Evidence-Based  Practice Center reviewed 327 research articles published in 1998 or later. They  examined whether the articles found that using health IT to implement  patient-centered care led to improvements in:

  • Patients’ health; or
  • Health care processes.

Study Findings

According to the researchers, the prior studies suggest that using health IT  to advance patient-centered care leads to improved clinical or process outcomes  in most cases.

The report also found that certain barriers have posed challenges to using  health IT to advance patient-centered care, including:

  • Limited patient access to technology; and
  • Low computer literacy among clinicians or patients (Berry, American  Medical News, 7/9).

Source: iHealthBeat

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