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Integrated Healthcare Information Systems in general practice encompasses a wide range of computerized systems for managing information about people's health and health care for both individual patients and groups of patients. Health information technology may increase the quality of care while also lowering costs. The American Hospital Research and Quality Faculty's (AHRQ) health information technology (IT) project is part of the nation's goal to use information technology in health care. Health IT integration with family doctors includes a wide range of computerized technologies for managing information about people's health and health care for both patients and patient groups. The National Resource Center for Health IT at the Agency for Healthcare and Quality (AHRQ) links the health care community and the researchers and specialists working on the front lines in health IT.