Navigating Health Policy to Support Healthcare Transformation
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UNPACKING COMPLEX DIGITAL HEALTH POLICIES

Select Publications

Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Threatens Patient Safety—Policy Makers Must Act To Confront It.
Dian L Baker, Karen K Giuliani, Chantal Worzala, Annie Cloke, and Lu Zawistovich. Health Affairs.

Advancing a Nationwide Patient Matching Strategy. 
Rita Torkzadeh et al. Journal of the American Health Information Management Association.

Electronic health record adoption in US hospitals: the emergence of a digital “advanced use” divide.”
Julia Adler-Milstein, A Jay Holmgren, Peter Kralovec, Chantal Worzala, Talisha Searcy, and Vaishali Patel. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Electronic health record adoption in US hospitals: Progress continues, but challenges persist.
Julia Adler-Milstein, Catherine M. DesRoches, Peter Kralovec, Gregory Foster, Chantal Worzala, Dustin Charles, Talisha Searcy and Ashish K. Jha. Health Affairs.

More than half of US hospitals have at least a basic EHR, but stage 2 criteria remain challenging for most.
Julia Adler-Milstein, Catherine M. DesRoches, Michael F. Furukawa, Chantal Worzala, Peter Kralovec, Samantha Stalley and Ashish K. Jha. Health Affairs.

Some Hospitals Are Falling Behind in Meeting ‘Meaningful Use’ Criteria and Could be Vulnerable to Penalties in 2015. 
C. DesRoches, C. Worzala and S. Bates. Health Affairs.

Adoption of Electronic Health Records Grows Rapidly, but Fewer Than Half of US Hospitals Had at Least a Basic System in 2013. 
C. DesRoches, D. Charles, M. Furukawa, M. Joshi, P. Kralovec, F. Mostashari, C. Worzala, and A. Jha. Health Affairs.

Small, Nonteaching, and Rural Hospitals Continue to be Slow in Adopting Electronic Health Record Systems. 
C. DesRoches, C. Worzala, M. Joshi, P. Kralovec, and A. Jha. Health Affairs.


Select Presentations

Information Sharing - National Academy of Medicine: “Policy and Other Drivers of Interoperability in Health Care,” presented to the National Academy of Medicine symposium on Purchasing Interoperability in Health and Health Care.

Interoperability - ONC Annual Meeting: “Addressing Gaps in Interoperability,” 2018 Annual Meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).

Privacy - Shifting Ground: Stakeholder Perspectives on Health Data Privacy in Changing Times, AdvaMed Health Data Stewardship and Privacy Summit.

Cybersecurity - Washington Update. 2018 Medical Device Security 101 Conference, Archimedes Center for Medical Device Security.

Connected Health - Scottsdale Institute: Accelerating the Adoption of Connected Health.


Committee Service

  • HIMSS Public Policy Committee

  • 4Medica Advisory Committee

  • Leadership Council, eHealth Initiative

  • Co-Chair, Policy Steering Committee, eHealth Initiative

  • Stakeholder Advisory Group, Future Directions for Medical Device Registries, Pew Charitable Trusts

  • Policy Committee, National Alliance for Health Information Technology

  • Expert Consensus Panel, Health Information Technology Adoption Initiative