Despite more than $30 billion of federal investment in health information technology since the late 2000s, the transition from paper to electronic health records in the United States still had not reached its potential to enhance coordination among health care providers and improve patient safety. So beginning in 2016 until its sunset in 2022, The Pew Charitable Trusts’ health information technology project sought to make those goals a reality.
Pew conducted research and convened stakeholder organizations to advance solutions that would make it easier for electronic records to move between the different health care settings where patients seek treatment and make the systems that house those records easier for health care providers and safer for patients.
Ultimately, Pew’s work helped move health information technology toward a system in which health information is secure, accurate, and accessible to patients and their doctors when and where it’s needed.
