Video: Hospital Performance and IT: Does IT Make a Difference?
Hospital Performance and IT: Does IT Make a Difference?
Dr. Nicolas Beard
Healthcare Technology
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Global Technology Center
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Presented at OHSU Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology
Abstract:
Many claims are made for the potential for IT to transform healthcare. Claims include the full span of cost reductions and quality improvements. Plenty of case studies exist – but what about larger scale studies? How well supported are the claims of returns on investment? In this talk, Nick Beard will review the existing evidence, and provide new insights based on two years of in-depth econometric research which used a multi-year panel of data to explore the relationships between IT investment and hospital performance, in terms of both cost and quality.
About the Speaker:
Nick Beard is an internationally recognized authority on healthcare information systems with 20 years of experience in the industry. He has degrees in medicine, and in software engineering, from the University of London. He has served as Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Informatics at a leading healthcare software company, and as CIO at an advanced medical facility in the UK. He has practiced medicine in the UK, in Australia, and – briefly – aboard a merchant navy vessel in the Atlantic.
Dr. Beard is responsible for healthcare technology thought-leadership at the PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Technology Center. An experienced public speaker on a wide range of healthcare technology topics, he has been a guest lecturer at Stanford, the University of Washington, UC Berkeley, the University of London and the National University of Singapore.
