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- Title
Envisioning health equity for American Indian/Alaska Natives: a unique HIT opportunity.
- Authors
Cullen, Theresa; Flowers, Jan; Sequist, Thomas D; Hays, Howard; Biondich, Paul; Laing, Maia Z
- Abstract
The Indian Health Service provides care to remote and under-resourced communities in the United States. American Indian/Alaska Native patients have some of the highest morbidity and mortality among any ethnic group in the United States. Starting in the 1980s, the IHS implemented the Resource and Patient Management System health information technology (HIT) platform to improve efficiency and quality to address these disparities. The IHS is currently assessing the Resource and Patient Management System to ensure that changing health information needs are met. HIT assessments have traditionally focused on cost, reimbursement opportunities, infrastructure, required or desired functionality, and the ability to meet provider needs. Little information exists on frameworks that assess HIT legacy systems to determine solutions for an integrated rural healthcare system whose end goal is health equity. This search for a next-generation HIT solution for a historically underserved population presents a unique opportunity to envision and redefine HIT that supports health equity as its core mission.
- Subjects
ALASKA; ALASKA Natives; UNITED States. Indian Health Service; NATIVE Americans; HEALTH information technology; INFORMATION resources management; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2019, Vol 26, Issue 8/9, p891
- ISSN
1067-5027
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/jamia/ocz052