Title :
Information Technology in Health Care Systems: Barriers to Adoption
Author :
Zenios, Stefanos
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Bus., Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA
Abstract :
This presentation provides graph of macro-level data on the efficiency, safety, and health benefits of electronic health record (EHR), global system utilization savings, information expenditures, and medical revenue after operating costs. Game theory suggests that investing in an EHR can be a good strategy even if it has a negative ROI.
Keywords :
game theory; health care; information technology; medical administrative data processing; electronic health record; game theory; global system utilization saving; health care system; information expenditure; information technology; medical revenue; Information technology; Medical services;
Conference_Titel :
Computing in the Global Information Technology, 2006. ICCGI '06. International Multi-Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bucharest
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2690-X
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7695-2690-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICCGI.2006.35
