Mobile health, or mHealth, uses mobile technologies as tools and platforms for health research and healthcare delivery. The following resources provide additional information on mHealth, and its impact on global health.
AHIMA leads the health informatics and information management community to advance professional practice and standards.
HIMSS is a cause-based, not-for-profit organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.
AHRQ's health information technology (health IT) initiative is part of the Nation's strategy to put information technology to work in health care. By developing secure and private electronic health records for most Americans and making health information available electronically when and where it is needed, health IT can improve the quality of care, even as it makes health care more cost-effective.
The Center for Health Transformation (CHT) takes an in-depth look at the implementation of Health Information Exchanges, which are crafted with the goal of connecting providers to an interoperable health information network.
This rush of new tech and new ideas has given information technology departments quite the run for their money. Hospitals and doctor's offices are now moving towards electronic medical records so that their patient's health information may be shared faster and more reliably than ever before.
The mission of the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) is to inform policy makers and private decision makers about how local and national changes in the financing and delivery of health care affect people. HSC strives to provide high-quality, timely and objective research and analysis that leads to sound policy decisions, with the ultimate goal of improving the health of the American public.
Widespread adoption of health information technology (health IT) can foster improvements in quality, safety, efficiency and access - key goals in today's national dialog on health reform.
These goals also drive the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization with the public mission of accelerating the adoption of health IT.
eHealth Initiative is the only national organization that represents all of the stakeholders in the healthcare industry and has a coalition of over 200 of the most prestigious and influential organizations amongst its members, including: clinicians, consumer and patient groups, employers and healthcare purchasers, health plans, health information technology (HIT) suppliers, hospitals and other providers, laboratories, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, pharmacies, public health agencies, quality improvement organizations, standards groups, and state, regional and community-based organizations.
The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics was established by Congress to serve as an advisory body to the Department of Health and Human Services on health data, statistics and national health information policy. It fulfills important review and advisory functions relative to health data and statistical problems of national and international interest, stimulates or conducts studies of such problems and makes proposals for improvement of the Nation's health statistics and information systems.
Dedicated to improve the administrative efficiency, quality and cost effectiveness of healthcare through the implementation of business strategies for electronic record-keeping, and information exchange and management.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is at the forefront of the administration's health IT efforts and is a resource to the entire health system to support the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care.
The mission of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel is to serve as a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors for the purpose of achieving a widely accepted and useful set of standards specifically to enable and support widespread interoperability among healthcare software applications, as they will interact in a local, regional and national health information network for the United States.