The authors discuss how healthcare has “lagged” far behind other information-intensive industries in its use of
IT. Aside from the difficulties of aggregating massive amounts of data into an electronic source, what other
factors do you think could be contributing to the lag?
IT systems within a typical healthcare provider organization can be grouped into three major categories. Please
provide examples of how each category can be used to address a research question in population health?
This chapter discusses the value of EHRs and how they can be used to address the two-fold problem in
evidence-based medicine. Describe this two-fold problem then refer to the McGlynn article described and
answer the following questions:
What is the overall goal/objective of the article?
Preferred language style Simple (Easy vocabulary, simpl