Abstract ”Meaningful human control” is a term invented in the political and legal debate on autonomous weapons system, but it nowadays also used many other contexts. It supposed to specify conditions under which an artificial system right kind of control avoid responsibility gaps: that is, situations no moral agent responsible. Santoni de Sio Van den Hoven have recently suggested framework can ...

OBJECTIVE To provide a state profile of information technology (IT) sophistication in Missouri nursing homes. METHOD Primary survey data were collected from December 2006 to August 2007. A descriptive, exploratory cross-sectional design was used to investigate dimensions of IT sophistication (technological, functional, and integration) related to resident care, clinical support, and administr...

UNLABELLED OBJECTIVES To assess electronic health record (EHR) adoption and meaningful use among US children's hospitals through 2011 and compare these outcomes with adult hospitals and among subgroups of children's hospitals. We hypothesized that children's hospitals would show progress since our initial evaluation of health information technology (HIT) implementation in 2008. METHODS We ide...

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 provides incentive payments to eligible hospitals and providers that demonstrate the meaningful use of a certified electronic health record (EHR) system . This report describes the adoption of EHRs in hospital emergency departments (EDs) and outpatient departments (OPDs) from 2006 through 2011 using the Nati...

Successfully reporting meaningful use of electronic health records to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services can be a challenging process, particularly for healthcare organizations with large numbers of eligible professionals. This case report describes a successful meaningful use attestation process undertaken at a major academic medical center. It identifies best practices in the area...

Research has shown that the United States lags many other countries in the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs). The U.S. has now embarked on a major effort to achieve "meaningful use" of health information technology by clinicians and hospitals. This issue brief describes the extent of meaningful use in three countries with very high levels of health information technology adoption—Den...

BACKGROUND Adoption and implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) has not been without challenges as it infuses technology into what has been a historically manual process of recording patient information. In an effort to identify these challenges, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology leveraged the Regional Extension Center population of over 140,000...