Comments on: Computers Aren’t Saving Hospitals Money — Report

By: SteveInTransit

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:16:53 +0000

Yes, 6 times. IT is poorly understood by customers, and the business model of providing software drives prices higher than the content merits.
The story of Wal-Mart is the story of e-commerce and data mining in transforming the supply chain. These kinds of gains can be made in improving the efficiency of delivering health care services, though the savings won’t be overnight- it’ll take years to break even, but it’ll be the only way out of the ongoing cost inflation we see in these services.

By: Jim Nash

Jim Nash — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:26:04 +0000

I have no dog in this fight. I know that business success never can be attributed to any one or two factors any more than you can say the lighting or the score makes “The Godfather” the best US movie ever made.

Having reported on information technology for about a decade, my impression is that IT promise usually falls short of IT performance.

It’s:
* Oversold by developers
* Over promised by vendors
* Overhyped by analysts with conflicts of interest
* Overbought by companies
* Under deployed by consultants and
* Under examined by CEOs who can’t take back the money they paid for the systems

By: misterb

misterb — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:06:42 +0000

As a computer professional, I can tell you that up until the mid-90’s computerization never saved anybody a cent. But once the benefits kicked in, they kicked in bigtime, and the savings rapidly accelerated. You can trace the predominance of several major national businesses to the mid-90s when the trendlines crossed and those who exploited the technology started to have a huge competitive advantage. Up until that point, similar studies to the one you cite would have been true, but would have completely missed the point.

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By: ebizjoey

ebizjoey — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:13:31 +0000

This is hard to believe, but the VA is saving as you say, and I take some comfort as a vet knowing that the VA system is connected, a VA hospital on the other end of the country has the same info as my hometown- and thats what they really need but they will resist this information sharing because every hospital wants to bill to capacity. The business culture is that the machinary is here, so lets use the capacity and make more money!