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OECD Health Policy Studies Improving Health Sector Efficiency: The Role of Information and Communication Technologies
Contributor(s): OECD Publishing (Author)
ISBN: 9264084606     ISBN-13: 9789264084605
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
OUR PRICE:   $39.90  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Economics - General
- Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
- Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development
Dewey: 362.6
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.2" W x 8.9" (0.55 lbs) 156 pages
 
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Despite the promise they hold out, implementing information and communication technologies (ICTs) in clinical care has proven to be a very difficult undertaking. More than a decade of efforts provide a picture of significant public investments, resulting in both notable successes and some highly publicised costly delays and failures. This has been accompanied by a failure to achieve widespread understanding among the general public and the medical profession of the benefits of electronic record keeping and information exchange. With consistent cross-country information on these issues largely absent, the OECD has used lessons learned from case studies in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United States to identify the opportunities offered by ICTs and to analyse under what conditions these technologies are most likely to result in efficiency and quality-of-care improvements. The findings highlight a number of practices or approaches that could usefully be employed in efforts to improve and accelerate the adoption and use of these technologies.