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Health Services Research Journal Special Issue on HIT

A special issue of Health Services Research on “Health Information Technology” is now available. The February special issue, led by Guest Editors Rainu Kaushal, David Blumenthal and HSR Senior Associate Editor Albert Siu, offers an insight into current research on health IT and an understanding of the progress in health IT made under the Healthcare Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009, which accounted for an unprecedented $30 billion investment in health IT.

The February special issue is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Articles in the special issue address the varying effects of electronic health record systems on care quality and efficiency, promising statewide assessments of EHR adoption in nursing homes, apparently-inefficient public health data sharing between local and state health departments, and data from an incentive program that showed primary care physicians outperformed specialists on most meaningful health IT-use measures.

HSR subscribers will receive print copies the week of Jan. 27.

Health Services Research is HRET’s flagship publication and an official journal of AcademyHealth. Rated as one of the top journals in the field, HSR publishes outstanding articles reporting the findings of original investigations that expand understanding of the wide-ranging field of health care and help improve the health of individuals and communities. For information on HSR, please contact Senior Journal Editor Robin Campbell.