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Use of health information technology (HIT) to help keep patients insured.
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Health Information Technology: An Untapped Resource to Help Keep Patients Insured
Heather Angier , and colleagues
Background This essay suggests that health information technology is an untapped resource to support practice-based efforts to help patients obtain and maintain health insurance coverage. The authors present a conceptual model and strategies for harnessing health information technology to support insurance enrollment and retention. They also describe insurance support tools that could be used to conduct 'inreach' and 'outreach' with patients around health insurance, similar to how health information technology is used to manage chronic disease and panels of patients and to improve population health outcomes.
