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Evaluating Health IT Projects
(August 4, 2009)

Free updated toolkit provides step-by-step guidance for project teams who are developing evaluation plans for their health information technology initiatives.

Excerpted from the Health Information Technology Evaluation Toolkit (2009 update), recently released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

For years, health IT has been implemented with the goals of improving clinical care processes, health care quality, and patient safety, without questioning the evidence base behind the true impact of these systems. In short, these systems were implemented because they were viewed as the right thing to do. In the early days of health IT implementation, evaluations took a back seat to project work and frequently were not performed at all, at a tremendous loss to the health IT field. Imagine how much easier it would be for you to implement your project if you had solid cost and impact data at your fingertips.

Health IT projects require large investments, and, increasingly, stakeholders are demanding information about both the actual and future value of these projects.

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