Bringing Health Care Online

U.S. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Bringing Health Care Online: The Role of Information Technologies.
Washington, DC: U.S.Government Printing Office, September 1995.
OTA-ITC-624.

• prefatory material (acrobat format)
  

• 1. Introduction, Summary, and Options
  Challenges and Opportunities for Information Technologies
  Trends in the Health Care System
  Congressional Interest
  Report Summary
  Other Applications
  acrobat format

• 2. Information Technologies for Transforming Health Care
  Islands of Automation
  The Life Cycle of Health Information
  Key Technologies for the Emerging Health Information Infrastructure
  Sharing the Common Pool of Data
  Policy Issues and Options
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• 3. Networks for Health Information
  Administrative Simplification
  Administrative Activities in Health Care
  Provider Administrative Activities
  Exchanging Information Between Providers and Payers
  Linking Health Care Providers With Suppliers
  Pharmaceutical Industry EDI
  Community and Regional Networking
  Costs and Cost-Effectiveness
  Policy Implications of Electronic Health Information
  Policy Considerations for Congress
  acrobat format

• 4. Using Information Technology to Improve the Quality of Health Care
  Clinical Decision Support
  Performance Assessment
  Conclusions
  acrobat format

• 5. Telemedicine: Remote Access to Health Services and Information
  Telemedicine's Potential Effects
  Telemedicine Applications
  Telemedicine Issues
  Telemedicine Policy Options
  acrobat format

  APPENDICES

• A. Workshop Participants acrobat format
  
• B. Reviewers and Contributors acrobat format
  
• C. Applications of Clinical Decision Support Systems acrobat format
  
• D. Executive Branch Telemedicine Activities acrobat format
  
• E. Electronic Health Information Sources acrobat format
  
• F. Boxes, Figures, and Tables acrobat format
  
• G. Abbreviations and Glossary acrobat format
  

• Index (in acrobat format only)
  

table of contents marked up
15 January 1999
at the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA USA
Please note that this table of contents only points to the PDF version of the OTA report.