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01-05-2016 | Guest Editorial
Designing Health Information Technologies for Uptake: Development and Implementation of Measurement Feedback Systems in Mental Health Service Delivery
Introduction to the Special Section
Authors:
Aaron R. Lyon, Cara C. Lewis
Published in:
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
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Issue 3/2016
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Excerpt
Driven by recent policy developments that emphasize accountability and data sharing (e.g., Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
2010; HITECH Act
2009), health information technologies (HIT) are rapidly becoming ubiquitous within the contemporary healthcare landscape. Specific subtypes of HIT support service quality monitoring and can be classified within the “quality management” set of implementation strategies articulated by Powell et al. (
2012,
2015). Despite their potential to function as an implementation strategy, these technologies often require their own strategic implementation supports to be successfully installed and effectively used in new service systems (Cohen
2015; Ruud
2015). Although there is widespread recognition of the potential for HIT to usher in new cost savings in healthcare, issues related to technology design and implementation processes have interfered with the extent to which those savings have been realized (Carroll
2015; Leviss
2011; Ribitzky et al.
2010). …