5 Ideas:
Health Care
January 2009
“Notwithstanding the current economic climate, we see healthcare as one of the fastest-growing vertical markets, not just in the U.S. but worldwide. We're seeing the greatest information technology growth on the clinical side of healthcare. The clinical side includes everything from automating analysis of lab specimens to capturing radiographic images digitally and sharing them within hospital networks and externally to physician offices and even other healthcare systems.”—Marc Holland, program director of healthcare provider research at Health Industry Insights
“With Oracle Hyperion Planning, we are much better equipped to manage inventories, control rising costs, and maintain our focus on quality care. We have more information available to us and are able to get it out much faster, which has improved decision-making and has had a positive effect on our bottom line.”— John Kilroy, director of operational budget, planning, and capital at University of Pennsylvania Health System
“My ultimate vision is that our customers don't merely interface with the system—they become a part of it. Who can better upload eligibility information about employees than the company itself? Who can best provide accurate information about doctors and medical codes than the providers themselves? That is our ultimate vision for this system, ”— Zeke Zoccoli, Horizon's vice president of IT
“The doctor or specialist sits in what we call a virtual physician's office and sees patients on a large plasma screen on the wall....The doctor sees a patient summary, notes from the previous visit, and special studies like EKGs or X-rays. During the examination, the doctor uses voice recognition to create a note back into the EMR."—
Dr. Glenn Hammack, assistant vice president and executive director of the UTMB Electronic Health Network
“Technology, in some sense, has turned medical research from a pure laboratory science into an information science. What we are trying to do is to leverage the fact that we can generate historically unprecedented amounts of information about disease by combining it with the growing body of knowledge that we as a community have assembled.”—Dr. John Quackenbush, professor of Computational Biology at Harvard's School of Public Health
