Welcome to the Brigham and Women's Hospital
Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics on Health Information Technology (CERT-HIT)

The country is making huge investments in health information technology (HIT), with the belief that HIT will be a key tool to enable healthcare to begin to close the quality gap.

Specific frontiers to be explored include:

     • how to do more effective post-        marketing surveillance

     • how to use decision support to        improve therapeutics in chronic
       disease management

     • how to ensure that HIT interventions
       cause a minimal number of new errors

     • how to smooth transitions for patients

     • how the onset of clinical data exchange
       will affect the equation

     • what decision support can be broadly        implemented.

The 6 projects conducted under the CERT-HIT will address these issues and will cover multiple settings including:

     • outpatients
     • inpatients
     • patients recently discharged from hospital.

The results should both help in assessing how current HIT-related interventions can be rolled out broadly, and also break new ground.