Center for Information Therapy
The Center for Information Therapy (IxCenter) is an independent, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization that aims to advance the practice and science of information therapy (Ix) to improve health, consumer decision making and healthy behaviors. The IxCenter acts as a catalyst for health care delivery innovation by diffusing Ix strategies through research, education and collaboration.
Ix is the timely prescription and availability of evidence-based health information to meet individual's specific needs and support sound decision making. Ix prescriptions are specifically targeted to an individual's needs at a particular moment in care and tailored their individual needs.
Physicians, health plans, hospitals, and other organizations can utilize physician-generated, system-generated, and consumer-generated Ix prescriptions to promote health, manage chronic disease, prevent medical mistakes, achieve patient-centered care, improve health care system efficiencies, and improve the overall quality and experience of care.
The Center for Information Therapy and URAC plan to develop disease-specific health web site content accuracy and comprehensiveness measurement tools. These tools will be utilized in Health Web Site Accreditation to promote increased content accuracy and comprehensiveness to the benefit of consumers world-wide. Funding is requested for developing measurement tools: extracting key elements of accuracy and comprehensiveness from evidence-based practice guidelines; convening performance measurement experts to review and amend the measures; converting those criteria into a set of technical specifications compiled in an abstraction tool; training reviewers to apply the tool to Web sites; and then using statistical measures of inter-rater reliability to assess the extent to which the measurement is objective, systematic and reliable. If interested in sponsoring this research initiative, please contact URAC.