Before you finalize your Health IT shopping list

re: Before you finalize your Health IT shopping list

Joseph Kornowski — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:47:12 GMT

Like you, I believe that information technology will ultimately disrupt and transform health delivery. However, that assumes that the right IT solutions are applied not to the current model for healthcare delivery – which is broadly believed to be broken and in need of substantial reform -- but to a future model that has yet to be defined. Of the various customers/stakeholder/users of the heathcare system, patients and their families are probably the only group with sufficient incentive currently to modify their behavior to align with a new IT-based model for improved management and communication of healthcare data (so long as they aren’t shouldering a greater share of the cost). Aligning the business models of clinicians, hospitals and insurance companies would appear to be more complex and challenging. And I haven’t heard about THAT work having been done yet. So, your question – “what will generate the most benefit and how can we accomplish it?” – needs to be applied to ALL the customers/stakeholder/users in a way that will appropriately incent the needed changes, including collaboration among them, in a way that does not now exist. Once we have that, we’ll know better what specific needs and imperatives the “IT solutions” must be applied to solve to help facilitate the kind of “reform” people are talking about.

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re: Before you finalize your Health IT shopping list

Bas Kroes — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:51:04 GMT

Interesting article indeed. I agree with the seven points you summarized, but the main goal the article suggests is Knowledge Driven Healthcare. This means we not only have to focus on efficience of processes but also at the quality and where possible reduce the risks of human errors. This is a long way to go but with appropriate chronological steps possible in time.

Tear Down the Walls and Liberate the Data

Neupert On Health — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:01:27 GMT

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan gave one of his most well remembered speeches . Few of us could forget

The willingness to succeed is only exceeded by the willingness to prepare

Neupert On Health — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:27:22 GMT

After many long months of discussion and debate , the first draft of Meaningful Use has come out. I’m