Health information technologies (HITs) include a wide variety of tools used for the procurement, storage, processing, and sharing of health information and data. Health information technologies have evolved rapidly over the last several decades alongside advances in hardware, software, telecommunications, and data science capacities. In the last decade, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has provided financial incentives to promote the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and associated technologies through the Meaningful Use program, and consumer demand has driven the development and use of technologies to support patient access to health information, such as patient portals. Although such HITs are considered essential tools to support modern health care delivery, a recent systematic review¹ identified a limited body of research evaluating the outcomes of HIT use in surgical practice. At its Thirteenth Annual Scientific Session on October 22, 2017, the Surgical Outcomes Club convened us as an expert panel to address the opportunities for innovation and improvement in surgical care through HITs. This Viewpoint summarizes our panel discussion about using HITs to measure surgical outcomes, meet consumer needs, and support learning health care systems (LHS).

健康信息技术（HIT）包括用于获取，存储，处理和共享健康信息和数据的各种工具。在过去的几十年中，健康信息技术随着硬件，软件，电信和数据科学能力的发展而迅速发展。在过去的十年中，《美国复苏与再投资法案》中用于经济和临床健康的健康信息技术部分提供了经济上的激励措施，以通过有意义的使用计划促进采用电子健康记录（EHR）和相关技术，并且消费者的需求已经推动了技术的开发和使用，以支持患者访问健康信息，例如患者门户。¹鉴定了评估外科手术中使用HIT的结果的有限研究机构。在2017年10月22日举行的第十三届年度科学会议上，外科手术结果俱乐部召集我们为专家小组，探讨通过HIT进行创新和改善外科护理的机会。该观点总结了我们有关使用HIT来测量手术结果，满足消费者需求并支持学习医疗系统（LHS）的小组讨论。