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Background Information
Acronym: HITI
Address: 7525 Colshire Dr.
City: McLean
State: Virginia
Zip: 22102-7400
E-mail: hiti@mitretek.org
Web Address: http://hitiweb.mitretek.org
General Inquiries About Organization
Name and Title: Mary Harlow, Director
Telephone: (703) 610-2450
E-mail: mharlow@mitretek.org
Forum Contact Person
Name and Title: Mary Harlow, Director
Telephone: (703) 610-2450
E-mail: mharlow@mitretek.org
Mission Statement
The Health Information Technology Institute strives to ensure quality health care by
conducting research in support of accessible, affordable, appropriate, and efficacious health
care in the public interest. HITI fulfills its mission by evaluating systems, developing
solutions, and implementing technology with the ultimate goal of improving the public's health.
Organizational Background/Description
The Health Information Technology Institute (HITI) was established in 1996 by Mitretek
Systems, Inc., a charitable, tax exempt 501 (c) (3) organization that operates in the public
interest. Mitretek provides information technology and environmental management support
to a wide client base, including the Department of Health and Human Services, Veterans Health
Administration, Indian Health Services, Kaiser Permanente, local non-profit hospitals, and
others. A Blue Ribbon Panel consisting of highly recognized national and regional
healthcare leaders from universities, health services organizations, and professional health
agencies advises HITI. The Institute believes that information technology is the backbone
for effective decision-making and provides the crux to support healthcare delivery systems. Information Literacy Goals, Areas of Interest, Publications, Standards, etc.
- Facilitating Solutions--working with other major professional, consumer, and government
organizations in establishing effective and implementable criteria for evaluating the quality of
health information available on the Internet targeted to consumers, health care providers, and
librarians. See http://hitiweb.mitretek.org for more information, including a white
paper and a policy paper on this effort. The white paper has already been translated into
many languages and the criteria are used by many organizations
- Educating and Training--helping educate and train healthcare professionals so they can
better understand appropriate uses of information technologies
- Researching--researching the effectiveness of innovative uses of information technologies
to support healthcare delivery
- Cancerdesk™--developing a leading edge disease-specific information technology product
that provides a unique, personalized source of cancer information and support services for
cancer patients and their caregivers
- Prevent It!--providing an interactive, Internet-based, automated software tool that will
tailor clinical preventive service guidelines to individuals based on their demographics
including age, sex, and risk factors
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