Solovy Alden, Chaiken Barry
Front Health Serv Manage. 2003 Spring;19(3):17-28.
This article offers a three-part analysis for identifying and assessing return on investment in healthcare information technology (IT) projects. Returns to IT can be financial, clinical, or structural. The goal is to identify key areas of measurable returns to both assess the value of a project before it is undertaken and to assess the actual value returned to the organization. Given the choice, many senior executives still prefer to rely on classic financial analyses, but the true value of a project is often found in the clinical and structural returns. Still, project-specific assessments do not answer the core question of whether long-term strategic investment in IT leads to a systemic strategic advantage to healthcare organizations. This article addresses these issues and indicates opportunities for further investigation.
本文提供了一个三部分的分析，用于识别和评估医疗信息技术（IT）项目的投资回报率。IT的回报可以是财务、临床或结构方面的。目标是确定可衡量回报的关键领域，以便在项目实施之前评估其价值，并评估返还给组织的实际价值。在有选择的情况下，许多高级管理人员仍然倾向于依赖传统的财务分析，但项目的真正价值往往体现在临床和结构回报中。然而，针对具体项目的评估并不能回答对IT进行长期战略投资是否会给医疗组织带来系统性战略优势这一核心问题。本文探讨了这些问题，并指出了进一步调查的机会。
