How to Measure Benefits of Non-standard Healthcare Systems
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.24.2.2515Keywords:
Health service, monitoring information system, hospital bed management information system, measuring of benefitsAbstract
One of the ways, how to improve the quality of patient care, is hiding in modern information technologies. Information technologies can increase the timeliness and accuracy of patient care. Their impact should be assessed from a few views: the quality and availability of medical information, the quality of diagnostic decisions and the quality of health care services. On one side, information technologies have the potential to improve health care quality, safety and patient satisfaction, but on the other side require financial investments. Every investment project needs to specify, why it is proposed, and what will be measurable benefits. The evaluation of financial investments in health care faces similar challenges as the evaluation of financial investments in other types of organizations – costs are often indirect and difficult to measure.
There are, however, additional possibilities in health care information technologies. They can improve quality of health care, support a treatment and consequently contribute to patients’ health. Examples of such systems are patient monitoring technologies. Benefits of these technologies are not only for the patient but also for the health care facility personnel. They decrease number of personnel and reduce the number of errors. These devices can provide information directly into a health care information system to make an important and useful health record.
Considering all above mentioned this paper aims to present a procedure how to measure benefits of non-standard healthcare systems. Based on statistically proven facts we declare problems that can eliminate financial investments in non-standard healthcare systems. These investments are balanced by the benefits to both the medical staff and patients.
