ONC dashboard enhanced with literature review, tool on health IT impacts

Laura Pedulli | | Health Exec | Economics

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced new features on its Health IT Dashboard including a comprehensive literature review on the impacts of health IT on outcomes and a related interactive site.

The dashboard includes Health Information Technology: An Updated Systematic Review with a Focus on Meaningful Use Functionalities, a 145-page report prepared by RAND Corp. that updates previous systematic reviews with the new peer review literature published between 2010 and 2013. The review finds that most recent studies indicate that health IT drove significant gains in healthcare quality, but that more research is needed on efficiency and safety.

ONC also announced a complementary interactive data visualization site that allows users to browse through a sortable and interactive table of 236 new health IT studies to explore what new research evidence shows regarding the relationship between health IT and quality, safety and efficiency.

Laura Pedulli

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