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The 10 challenges in Health IT in the coming years

Explore the key trends shaping the future of Health IT, from cost and quality issues to consumerism and technology advancements. Understand the importance of standards and interoperability for global healthcare collaboration.

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The 10 challenges in Health IT in the coming years

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  1. The 10 challenges in Health IT in the coming years H. Stephen Lieber HIMSS President & CEO

  2. Worldwide Themes • Cost: Europe, Asia, North America, Middle East all say the same: too high • Quality: Again, all say the same: too low • Access: patient access to care is uneven and at time unequal regardless of delivery or payment system

  3. Trend 1: Cost • Global challenge • OECD: less than 20 percent of the world’s population, but spend 90 percent of the world’s resources on health • In US, 16.7% of gross domestic product on healthcare ($2,000,000,000,000)

  4. Trend 2: Aging and Specialisation • Today: 8% of world’s popoulation over 65 • 2030: 12% will be over 65 • With age, chronic diseases increase • With longer life, more costs

  5. Trend 3: Consumerism • Shift of focus from process to the patient • PHR is just one example of consumer involvement • patient support and education materials, as well as the clinician-sourced information, will be both expected and demanded by patients

  6. Trend 4: Workflow Improvement • E-H-R = less time on administrative tasks and more time for direct patient care • Even with technology, the world will continue to require more doctors and nurses • Caregivers must be involved in the process to integrate technology into every patient-care scenario

  7. Trend 5: Medical Home • Medical Home: place of ongoing care and consistent care givers • Healthcare costs could decrease by 5.6 percent if all patients had a medical home

  8. Trend 6:EMRQuality • HIMSS Analytics: Electronic Medical Record adoption progress correlates to the quality of care • Size not a requirement for IT adoption or improved quality • Quality solutions: coordination of care among providers and computerized test results

  9. Trend 7: Internet Use • Some 1.4 billion people worldwide use the Internet • 4.5 percent of all Internet searches are for health-related information • healthcare organizations have introduced patient portals

  10. Trend 8: Mobile Devices • Telemedicine, as clinicians use this technology for remote diagnosis • Quality healthcare demands a local approach • Practical applications using open source software and SMS/MMS telereferrals, a simplified technology

  11. Trend 9: Human Genome • Learn more about the cause and treatment of disease, and how each person reacts • Healthcare delivery will evolve from reactive to proactive medicine • Electronic health records, clinical databases and all knowledge bases must operate with interoperability

  12. Trend 10: Standards • Development and adoption of universal health IT standards • Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, or IHE, is a global initiative managed by healthcare professionals and industry

  13. Conclusions • Collaboration • IT strategic planning • Interoperability brings global healthcare together

  14. May 5-7, 2009—Manama, Bahrain—www.himssME.org/09

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