“As currently implemented, hospital computing might modestly
improve process measures of quality but does not reduce administrative or
overall costs” say a Harvard
Medical School study.  The stuyd looked at some of the nation’s “most
wired” hospital facilities found that computerization of those facilities has
not saved them any money or improved administrative efficiency.


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The recently released study evaluated data
on 4,000 hospitals in the U.S over a four-year period and found that the immense
cost of installing and running hospital IT systems is greater than any expected
cost savings. And much of the software being written for use in clinics is aimed
at administrators, not doctors, nurses and lab workers.


The problem “is mainly that computer systems are built for the
accountants and managers and not built to help doctors, nurses and patients,”
the report’s lead author.  While many health care experts believe that
computerization will improve quality of care, reduce costs and increase
administrative efficiency, the Harvard Medical School report notes that no
earlier studies closely examined computerization’s cost or its effect on a
diverse sample of hospitals. Even hospitals on the “most wired” list “performed
no better than others on quality, costs, or administrative costs,” the study
found.

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