Title
Information technology for healthcare transformation
Abstract
Rising costs, decreasing quality of care, diminishing productivity, and increasing complexity have all contributed to the present state of the healthcare industry. The interactions between payers (e.g., insurance companies and health plans) and providers (e.g., hospitals and laboratories) are growing and are becoming more complicated. The constant upsurge in and enhanced complexity of diagnostic and treatment information has made the clinical decision-making process more difficult. Medical transaction charges are greater than ever. Population-specific financial requirements are increasing the economic burden on the entire system. Medical insurance and identity theft frauds are on the rise. The current lack of comparative cost analytics hampers systematic efficiency. Redundant and unnecessary interventions add to medical expenditures that add no value. Contemporary payment models are antithetic to outcome-driven medicine. The rate of medical errors and mistakes is high. Slow inefficient processes and the lack of best practice support for care delivery do not create productive settings. Information technology has an important role to play in approaching these problems. This paper describes IBM Research's approach to helping address these issues, i.e., the evidence-based healthcare platform.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1147/JRD.2011.2160684
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Keywords
Field
DocType
medical expenditure,enhanced complexity,information technology,healthcare transformation,care delivery,medical insurance,current lack,medical error,medical transaction charge,healthcare industry,evidence-based healthcare platform
Health care,Actuarial science,Best practice,Information technology,Computer science,Identity theft,Risk analysis (engineering),Real-time computing,eMix,Analytics,Database transaction,Payment
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
55
5
0018-8646
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.54
15
Authors
42
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. P. Bigus11048.12
M. Campbell230.88
B. Carmeli3161.83
M. Cefkin430.54
H. Chang5182.68
C.-H. Chen-Ritzo630.54
W. F. Cody7334123.58
S. Ebadollahi8161.94
A. Evfimievski940.89
A. Farkash1030.54
S. Glissmann1130.54
David Gotz1293151.66
Tyrone Grandison1385660.58
Daniel Gruhl142282434.45
P. J. Haas1530.54
M. J. H. Hsiao1630.54
P.-Y. S. Hsueh1730.54
Jianying Hu1847835.52
J. M. Jasinski1930.54
J. H. Kaufman2030.54
C. A. Kieliszewski21151.68
M. S. Kohn2230.54
S. E. Knoop2330.54
P.P. Maglio2432436.09
M. Rosen-Zvi2581.78
M. Rosen-Zvi2681.78
H. Nelken27131.38
chalapathy neti28104387.44
H. Neuvirth2930.54
Y. Pan30422.76
Y. Peres3171.14
S. Ramakrishnan3230.54
S. Renly3330.54
patricia griffiths selinger34124119.66
Amnon Shabo358919.87
R. K. Sorrentino3630.54
J. Sun3730.54
T. Syeda-Mahmood38101.57
W.-C. Tan3930.54
Y. Y. Y. Tao4030.54
R. Yaesoubi4130.54
WC Tan422529198.85