CITL's reports are available through our partnership with HIMSS and can be purchased online at the HIMSS web site. Currently available reports are:

The Value of Personal Health Records
This report examines the value proposition for implementing personal health records (PHRs) thoughout the US.

This analysis quantifies the cost-benefit of a variety of infrastructure, administrative, and clinical PHR functions including:

• Sharing of complete medication lists
• Sharing of complete test results
• Appointment scheduling
• Medication renewals
• Pre-encounter questionnaires
• E-visits
• Congestive heart failure (CHF) remote monitoring
• Smoking cessation management

CITL modeled these eight functions for provider-tethered, payer-tethered, third-party, and interoperable PHRs, examining differing deployment strategies to achieving 80 percent adoption by the US population. The report includes a detailed cost model for each type of PHR system.

Order the Value of Personal Health Records report.

The Value of Provider-to-Provider Telehealth Technologies

This report examines the value proposition for implementing a subset of telehealth technologies. CITL examined the overall value of three telehealth technology systems: store-and-forward, real-time video, and a hybrid model that combining the first two. The analysis studies at the cost-benefit of using telehealth technologies in four healthcare settings including:

• Reducing emergency department transfers
• Reducing transfers from correctional facilities to emergency departments and physician offices
• Reducing transfers from nursing home facilities to emergency departments and physician offices
• Replacing in-person consults with virtual consults
• Reducing redundant and unnecessary laboratory tests

Order the Telehealth Technologies report.

Healthcare Information Exchange and Interoperability (HIEI)

The full report on HIEI examines in detail the impact of the electronic flow of healthcare information and its role in improving patient safety and the quality of care. It measures the importance of seamless interoperability among vital sectors of the US healthcare delivery system.

The report includes:

• Explanation of HIEI benefits for providers, payers, independent laboratories, radiology centers, pharmacies, and public health departments
• Comparison of benefits and costs of different levels of HIEI sophistication
• Projections of HIEI value to individual providers, other organizations, and the nation as a whole
• Detailed calculations of value and the evidence upon which they are based

order the HIEI Report. (you will leave this web site)

Ambulatory CPOE

Our dramatic findings about Ambulatory CPOE (Computerized Provider Order Entry) include insights that will enable healthcare IT leaders to make more informed strategic decisions... decisions that will help them reduce costs and improve quality. Our comprehensive analysis contains:

• An interactive software model to help healthcare IT leaders calculate the potential value of ACPOE to their organizations
• Detailed characteristics and value projections on different levels of ACPOE system functionality
• In-depth commentary and graphics offering a breakthrough level of insight on ACPOE value

read the Executive Preview on ACPOE
order the ACPOE Report (you leave this web site)