High Costs of Health IT, ePrescribing, and HIE — #HITsm Chat Highlights

The following is our regularly scheduled roundup of tweets from yesterday’s #HITsm chat. You can also check out John’s blog post on yesterdays #HITsm topics. Topic One: Costs vs benefits. Will high costs always be the #1 barrier cited to #healthIT adoption? T1: Costs aren’t just $ setup costs, but also workflow disruption, learning curve #HITSM — Gautam Jaggi (@GautamJaggi) June 28, 2013 T1: Costs an issue in Australia when GP HIT cost subsidised 90%+ adoption but also need education/training #hitsm — georgemargelis (@georgemargelis) June 28, 2013 T1: User experience will also be barriers. Need better experiences for physicians and patients. #hitsm — Jon Mertz (@jonmertz) June 28, 2013 A1 The costs will be multidimensional – due to optimization, human capital, industry forces #HITsm — LeAnna J. Carey (@thehealthmaven) June 28, 2013   Topic Two: Why does ePrescribing have such widespread acceptance while #telehealth adoption is so low? T2: ePrescribing is just sending Rx using different channel. #Telehealth involves 2-way dialog. #HITSM — Gautam Jaggi (@GautamJaggi) June 28, 2013 T1 seems that smart decision makers see where costs are truly found to ultimately save time and $, so they lower barrier to adoption #HITsm — Kitterman Marketing (@KittermanMG) June 28, 2013 T2: Telehealth = ATMs 50 yrs ago. Unthinkable customers could handle $ remotely. Many docs, like bank tellers, r threatened. #HITsm — Gautam Jaggi (@GautamJaggi) June 28...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Tags: HealthCare IT HIE HL7 Meaningful Use #HITsm Chat mHealth Source Type: blogs