Evaluating Business Value of IT in Healthcare: Three Clinical Practices from Australia and the US

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015:216:183-7.

Abstract

Exponentially increasing costs in healthcare coupled with poor quality and limited access have motivated the healthcare industry to turn to IS/IT solutions to overcome these issues and facilitate superior healthcare delivery. In an environment of rapid development of new clinical informatics solutions claiming to provide better healthcare delivery, there is a paucity of systematic frameworks to robustly measure the actual value of these systems. The promised business value of these solutions has been elusive; hence, this study offers an approach for the evaluation of the business value of health IS/IT solutions based on a conceptual model, which has been validated using three clinical case studies.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Australia
  • Computer Simulation
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis / economics
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis / methods*
  • Electronic Health Records / economics*
  • Electronic Health Records / statistics & numerical data
  • Health Care Costs / statistics & numerical data*
  • Medical Order Entry Systems / economics*
  • Medical Order Entry Systems / statistics & numerical data
  • Models, Economic*
  • Nursing Records / economics*
  • Nursing Records / statistics & numerical data
  • United States