Health Information Technology

- Augment the patient/provider relationship with HIT  
- Promotion of patient self-care management with HIT
- Business of health and the health relationship
- Public health education
- Caregiver role and use of HIT        
- Quality care and patients in an HIT environment
- Consumer/Clinician as HIT resources        
- Simulation and models of patient care processes
- Electronic health records/electronic medical records        
- Smart health and wellbeing technology
- Globalization and sustainability of patient-centric HIT      
- Social networking for health enhancement
- Hand-offs in health care        
- Standardization/policy of care delivery processes
- Health education and literacy  

- Success in the adoption and use of HIT
- Health information management        
- Telehealth and telemedicine solutions
- Health care disaster planning        
- Unexpected synergies-interactive HIT and caring relationships
- Integration of business intelligence tools in health care 
- User acceptance of patient-centric health care systems
- Lessons learned in the relationship/HIT experience        
- Visual and GIS enabled portals for patients
- Patient satisfaction and outcomes with EHRs, PHRs        
- Web savvy patients and HIT
- Practice models for work flow design  
- Workforce retraining in the HIT enabled organization