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5:19イ LTE くBack Research Paper Topic HT.docx h Research Paper: Healthcare Technology Topic: Healthcare Information Technology and Economics Abstract Key words: Electronic Health Records, Economics Health Reform, Benefit Analysis, Information Systems Introduction: The state of current healthcare costs and health IT plans The consequences of high healthcare costs The role of IT in reducing the costs and improving the quality of health Is there evidence health IT is worth our investment? Conclusion: 3 References: 4 to 5 pages of research-(not including the cover sheet abstract, and reference page). Dashboard Calendar To DoNotifications Inbox

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RESEARCH PAPER: HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY

TOPIC: HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS.

ABSTRACT: American collage of Medical informatics(ACMI)(2011) winter symposium we studied the overlap between health IT and Economics and what leadings healthcare delivery organizations are achieving today using IT that might offer paths for the nation to follow for using health IT in health care reform.Health IT is a critically important enabler to fundamental healthcare system changes that may be a way out of our current,severe problem of raising costs and national deficit.

-- We review the current state of healthcare costs,federal health IT,stimulus programs,and experiences of several leading organizations,and offer a model for how health IT fits into our health economic future.

KEYWORDS: Economic health records,Economics health care reform,cost benefit analysis,information systems.

INTRODUCTION: US investment in health information technology(IT) has risen since 2008 while the focus on the national deficit and rising healthcare costs has sharpened.

-- This convergence makes it opportune to review how health IT can influence healthcare spending and provide financial return on the nations investment in it.The overlap between health IT and economics was the theme of the 2011 American collage of medical informatics(ACMI) winter symposium at which invited guests and ACMI fellows presented prospectives on this issue,and studied at the current achievements of leading healthcare delivery organizations for insights into the paths the nation might follow in using health.

-- In summary we can say that health IT by itself can improve health value,but its main contribution to health value may be that it can make possible new care delivery models to achieve much greater value.Thus,health IT is a critically important enabler of fundamental healthcare systems changes that may provide a solution to our current,severe problem of rising costs and national deficit.National investment in health IT is extremely important now as we struggle to decide among competing alternatives for the future of the American healthcare system.

The state of current healthcare costs and health IT plans

The USA likely spends too much money on healthcares .In 2005,expenditure on healthcare was $6041 per capita,more than double the median of $2922 spent in the 30 industrialized countries of the organization for economic cooperation and development.

-- By 2008 annual per capita healthcare spending had risen to $7681,with a total for the nation of over &2.3 trillion,three times the 1990 estimate.Expenditure growth exceeds overall cost inflation and GDP growth every year for the last 10 years and with out structural change,this trend is expected to continue.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIGH HEALTHCARE COSTS

​​​​​​-- The US employer based system for insuring the healthcare costs of working Americans and their families covers 160 million people.According to national association of manufacturers 97% of its members provide health insurance,with highly variable and decreasing coverage and increasing co-pay provisions.

-- Many smaller employers do not offer or do not subsidize insurance.The national association of manufacturers reports that insurance costs between 1999 and 2009 increased by 119% putting US employees at a disadvantage in the global economy.An estimated 48 million Americans lack private or public health insurance altogether and a large number have inadequate insurance coverage .

THE ROLE OF IT IN REDUCING THE COST AND IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF HEALTHCARE

-- In transforming healthcare to control costs and improve outcomes,IT has been recognized as an essential tool in a series of reports by the national Academy of Sciences.It can do this in several ways.

IS THERE EVIDENCE HEALTH IT IS WORTH OUR INVESTMENT?

-- We needs to analyze several elements of this question,that health IT has been successfully used to control a variety of healthcare costs.These include avoidance of duplicate testing and adverse drug events,conserving providers time and effort by having information more easily accessible and cost savings associated with increased efficiency or productivity metrics.

CONCLUSIONS:

-- The health IT has been widely recognized as essential to achieving national goals of reducing the cost of health care while improving quality, safety,access and equity.Health IT can serve as the foundation for eliminating duplicated services,reducing error and improving the care of individual patients by supporting fundamental change in care delivery model and by providing detailed information on the processes and outcomes of the care of populations.

3 REFERENCES

1) US health care costs kaiser family foundation 2010.

2) centers for medicare and medicaid services National Health expenditure data.

3) Committee of quality of health care in America crossing the quality chasm: A new health system for the 21st century.A report of the institute of Medicine.washington,DC:National Academy press,2001.