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Title

Improving health sector efficiency : the role of information and communication technologies.

Publication

Paris : OECD, c2010.

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Additional Authors

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Description

154 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Despite the promise they hold out, implementing information and communication technologies (ICTs) in clinical care has proven to be a very difficult undertaking. More than a decade of efforts provide a picture of significant public investments, resulting in both notable successes and some highly publicized costly delays and failures. This has been accompanied by a failure to achieve widespread understanding among the general public and the medical profession of the benefits of electronic record keeping and information exchange. With consistent cross-country information on these issues largely absent, the OECD has used lessons learned from case studies in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United States to identify the opportunities offered by ICTs and to analyze under what conditions these technologies are most likely to result in efficiency and quality-of-care improvements. The findings highlight a number of practices or approaches that could usefully be employed in efforts to improve and accelerate the adoption and use of these technologies.--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

OECD health policy studies, 2074-3181 [Online], 2074-319X

Uniform Title

OECD health policy studies

Subject

• Medical informatics
• Medical care > Information technology
• Medical technology
• Public Health Informatics
• Medical Informatics
• Medical Informatics Applications
• Medical Laboratory Science

Note

• Also available in French: Améliorer l'efficacité du secteur de la santé : le rôle des technologies de l'information et des communications.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online with subscription.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Generating value from health ICTs -- What prevents countries from improving efficiency through ICTs? -- Aligning incentives with health system priorities -- Enabling a secure exchange of information -- Using benchmarking to support continuous improvement.

ISBN

• 9789264084605 (pbk.)
• 9264084606 (pbk.)

OCLC

647801497

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library