Improving Health Sector Efficiency
The Role of Information and Communication Technologies
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.
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Executive summary
Today the range of possible applications of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the health sector is enormous. The technology has progressed significantly and many estimate that ICT implementation can result in care that is both higher in quality, safer, and more responsive to patients’ needs and, at the same time, more efficient (appropriate, available, and less wasteful). Advocates, in particular, point to the potential reduction in medication errors as a critical advantage.
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