Problems With Health Care Technology

Michael Skolnik, EDS, Petaluma

Stevenson Hall 1300
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Can health care ever become truly automated to support quality and flawless healthcare delivery? Health care has remained at least ten to fifteen years behind othervertical markets in implementing technology solutions to their major clinical and management issues. Why has this been the case? Why do 60% of technology projectsfail in healthcare? How can technology become a catalyst leading to a new and better health care system? Is the embedded bureaucracy going to change its operating protocol to allow technology to work its miracles in the health industry? These and other issues regarding technology and the delivery of health care in the US will bediscussed.