What, if any relationship do you see between the information available on this webpage and regulatory, accreditation, and reimbursement issues and healthcare information system use and design? Post your ethical considerations as a message in your blog.
To start with, there's a ton of info on AHRQ's web page. We've had to explore this site in the past for other classes and I've always found it rather cumbersome and nowhere near as intuitive as some other web pages I've used. AHRQ has a resource center for health information technology. This resource center provides clinicians with information that's needed to institute and appropriately utilize health information technology. I found a lot of tools for planing, implementing, and evaluating the use of health information technology in many different clinical settings. I really found very little information on regulatory, accreditation, and reimbursement issues. While AHRQ appears to whole heartedly endorse the development and use of health information technology, they don't seem to be to be to caught up in some of the more salient issues out there. Who will oversee the use of health information technology? Who will determine whether or not a health information system is compliant with HIPAA and other health information guidelines? How will we pay for the mass adoption of health information technology by clinicians? How will CMS reimburse? How will insurance companies reimburse?
It is clear that health information technology will play a huge role in the overhaul of our current health delivery system. What is not clear is the type of role it will play. Will it help or hinder? Will it create new unanticipated issues at many levels in the system?
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