Researchers Suggest The Value In Hospital System Implementations Is Hard To Pin Down And Failures Are Common!

This appeared last week:The impacts of eHealth upon hospital practice: synthesis of the current literature17 Oct 2017Deeble Institute for Health Policy ResearchCREATORSRebekah Eden, Andrew Burton-Jones, Ian Scott, Andrew Staib, Clair SullivanThe aim of this brief is to provide policy-makers with an analysis of current literature relating to the effects to be expected from hospital implementation of eHealth technologies.Description To increase value from health-care expenditures, governments worldwide are increasingly adopting (or planning to adopt) eHealth technologies (e.g. Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Computer Provider Order Entry (CPOE), ePrescribing, and Computerised Decision Support Systems (CDSS)). The US government devoted $34 billion to this effort, and as a result, over 75% of US hospitals have now implemented EMRs. Alternatively, the UK National Health Service suspended their digitization efforts in 2011 after spending approximately £12 billion, but in 2016 dedicated a... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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