Finally, Edward H. Shortliffe, M.D., Ph.D., President and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association in Bethesda, MD, offered recommendations from an in-progress summary report from its Annual Health Policy Meeting last September. These recommendations include: creating a taxonomy to improve understanding of and developing consensus around terminology related to unintended consequences of HIT implementations; conducting research to improve the ability to identify, anticipate, and avoid/mitigate unintended consequences; and creating best practices for HIT design and implementation.

The Meeting statements and presentations can be accessed at: http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=1473&&PageID=17117&mode=2&in_hi_userid=11673&cached=true



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