Home telemedicine holds promise for cost-effective delivery of monitoring, educational, and therapeutic services to people with chronic illnesses. The authors report that findings from Mathematica's congressionally mandated evaluation of the Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine...

This paper identifies opportunities for using multifactorial designs and electronic health record data to evaluate quality improvement efforts in physicians' practices. Examples include using multifactorial designs to evaluate clinical decision support features and studying components of a...

This working paper reviews impacts of the Electronic Health Records Demonstration implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, finding that moderate incentive payments did not lead to universal electronic health record (EHR) adoption and use in a two-year time frame. However, the...

Notes that the program improved several birth outcomes across the sites studied, reduced infant mortality in two sites, and was particularly successful at linking women and their families to prenatal care.

Presents results from the six-year evaluation, noting that the programs filled important gaps in services, that strong program administration and leadership are associated with better implementation and outcomes, and that coordination with existing clinical services is important.