Jonathan Payne
About Jonathan Payne
Jonathan Payne is a graduate student at the Harvard School of Public Health, department of Health Policy & Management. Jon's academic focus is the utilization of health information systems to improve population health outcomes and promote economic development. Jon recently worked in Honduras designing the technical specifications for a nationwide orphan case file management system. Prior to that, Jon worked as a health systems software engineer at Vanderbilt Medical Center where he led several enterprise-wide projects. Jon holds a BE in biomedical engineering and mathematics from Vanderbilt University. Jon's blog on health technology innovation can be found at singularityblog.wordpress.com.
Role(s) / Profession(s)
Organization
- Harvard School of Public Health
Language(s)
- English
Recent Contributions
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Jonathan Payne started a discussion "Health Information Systems for Children at Risk in Honduras" in the Health IT community.
Attached is a short white paper entitled Health Information Systems for Children at Risk in Honduras to address the required health component of a national child welfare information system. The information provided is applicable to any national level health information system implemented in a resource-poor setting. My work on this paper was done in conjunction with IHNFA, the Honduras department of child and family services, and Providence World Ministries, an orphanage in Siguatepeque, Honduras. You ...
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Jonathan Payne started a discussion ""What is an Electronic Health Record?" (and its effect on HIT planning)" in the Health IT community.
There is actually a lot of discussion still taking place about what an electronic health record (EHR) actually is. Earlier this decade, a survey taken at a convention of EHR vendors and hospitals in the US estimated EHR adoption at 60%. This information was used by the Bush administration in 2004 to justify formation of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and to set the goal of 90% of Americans having ...
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Jonathan Payne replied to "Categorization of Health IT Components" in the Health IT community.
Usman, Decision support is a tough one to categorize because, like you said, it fits into a lot of areas. I generally would fit it under CPOE and/or EMR, but it certainly can extend into other clinical components as well. I think I will add "Decision Support" under clinical. Thanks for the feedback. Jon
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Jonathan Payne started a discussion "Categorization of Health IT Components" in the Health IT community.
I am working on developing a Health IT Ontology, or a delineation of the different type of information technologies that compose HIT. This has turned out to be a complex task, because the list is never ending and there are many paradigms for developing these categories. For example: government, hospital, and ambulatory; or operational, financial, and clinical. Please take a look at the current version below or on my blog (http://singularityblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/components-of-hit-a-start/). Any feedback is appreciated ...
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Jonathan Payne replied to "Evaluating HIT, eHealth" in the Health IT community.
Anuj, This FIT for EMR White Paper (http://www.slideshare.net/jjorgensenus/FITforEMRWhitePaper) contains a framework for evaluating both the "hard" and "soft" benefits of an EMR implementation. While some of the soft benefits (such as a possible increase in job satisfaction) may be difficult to assess in financial terms, many of them can be quantified. 16 benefits (each with citations) are categorized as either cost saving or revenue increasing. This paper isn't exhaustive, but I think it's a good ...
Recent Recommendations
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