Getting to eHealth: The Opportunities for Using IT in the Health Care Industry

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Getting to e-Health The Opportunities for Using
IT in the Health Care Industry

• Webcast, June 7, 2000
• Dr. Faye Baggiano, EDS President, Health Care
  Global Industry Group ITAA Health Care Committee
  Chair
• Mark Uncapher, ITAA VP Counsel, Information
  Services E-Comm Div.

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Todays Webcast

• Introduce ITAA e-health study
• Business opportunities
• Challenges for IT
• Identify opportunities for IT in health care
  industry

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Overview of the Health Care Industry

• Largest industry in US
• 750,000 physicians
• 5,200 hospitals
• Expenditures gt 1.1 trillion
• Spends only 2 of revenues on IT

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IT Spending in the Health Care Industry

• Application Development Maintenance
• Internet Intranet Development
• Overhead and Facility Maintenance

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Health Care Costs and Waste

• Handling of financial administrative
  information
• Duplication of records
• Duplicative and erroneous tests
• Costs of hospital stays

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How big is the Health Care IT Opportunity?

• An industry-wide investment of 18.1 billion
  would yield over 6 years gross savings of 120
  billion over 6 years
• Savings are both administrative and clinical

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Health Care-Information Technology Opportunities

• Computer-based Patient Records
• Data Warehousing
• Document Imaging
• Internet Solutions
• Expert Information Systems

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Barriers to Implementing Health Care IT

• Technology
• Human and social
• Economic
• Political and legal

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Getting to e-Health The Opportunities for Using
IT in the Health Care Industry

• Together we can help the IT industry can
  encourage better use of its benefits