NAHIT creates group to examine information technology
Physician Practice Advisor, February 1, 2006
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT) recently created a clinical advisory group to help the organization set a course for wider acceptance and more effective use of information technology in clinical settings, according to a NAHIT press release.
"Although information technology in healthcare is a major focus for government, payers, and providers, physicians and other clinicians have not become as involved in either the implementation or use of IT as they should or could be," Clair Callan, MD, the Alliance's senior fellow who will oversee the new group, said in the release. "The Alliance sees a tremendous need and opportunity to draw clinicians into the process and demonstrate the importance of IT in healthcare to the professionals for whom the technology is ultimately intended."
The executive committee of the clinical advisory group has held two meetings and plans to develop a pragmatic playbook for "determining the fastest approach to getting short-term results and positive reinforcement from information technology in physician practices."
