@article{6779f55b82fa4ba59844325e2bbca138,
title = "Moving health information technology forward",
author = "Sequist, {Thomas D.} and Cook, {David A.} and Haas, {Jennifer S.} and Ronnie Horner and Tierney, {William M.}",
note = "Funding Information: Several studies in this issue highlight the emerging use of health IT to facilitate clinical research in ambulatory settings. Electronic health records and disease registries can provide a spectrum of data on large numbers of patients for rigorous sampling and treatment assignments that ensure good balance between intervention and control groups, as demonstrated by Love et al..23 Both Leveille et al.24 and Rollman et al.25 obtained promising results when using an electronic health record to recruit patients to clinical trials. The former team successfully used a secure patient portal to deliver electronic invitations to patients, whereas the latter delivered reminders to physicians within an electronic health record to suggest enrollment of patients into a clinical trial. These innovative uses of health IT can facilitate the movement of research from academic centers to the community, epitomizing the “translational research” strongly encouraged by the National Institutes of Health.26",
year = "2008",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1007/s11606-008-0551-y",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "23",
pages = "355--357",
journal = "Journal of general internal medicine",
issn = "0884-8734",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "4",
}