Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, USA.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2011 Apr;30(4):782-8. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0166.
The Beacon Community Program is part of a federal strategy for using health information technology as a foundation to improve the nation's health care system. In particular, Beacon Communities seek to increase the quality and efficiency of health care, improve the health of individuals and communities, and inform similar initiatives in other parts of the country. Each Beacon Community has set quality, efficiency, and health-related goals, and each is deploying multiple technology-enabled interventions to achieve them. Yet achieving large-scale and sustainable health care improvement also requires an implementation framework that can foster innovation and continuous learning from results. Based on the early experiences of the seventeen diverse Beacon Communities, this paper describes program design features that characterize how these initiatives are organized.
灯塔社区计划是联邦利用健康信息技术作为改善国家医疗保健系统的基础的一项战略的一部分。特别是，灯塔社区寻求提高医疗保健的质量和效率，改善个人和社区的健康，并为国家其他地区的类似计划提供信息。每个灯塔社区都设定了质量、效率和与健康相关的目标，并且每个社区都部署了多种技术支持的干预措施来实现这些目标。然而，要实现大规模和可持续的医疗保健改善，还需要一个实施框架，以促进创新和从结果中不断学习。基于十七个不同的灯塔社区的早期经验，本文描述了描述这些计划如何组织的计划设计特征。
