Digital Health Informatics Strategy

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Health IT (HIT) solutions have been promoted as a means to reduce the cost and increase the quality of health care delivery in the US and globally. The question we try to assess in this course is how we can deploy HIT technology to achieve its promise. This question is addressed from a strategic rather than technical perspective. You will develop exploratory frameworks to help analyze potential for impact of IT implementation efforts: scale economics, network economics, and organizational innovation. You will also assess the adoption of technology within existing organizations as well as barriers to adoption. Additionally, you will explore the development of killer apps -- how are health IT firms financed and what are successful business models and concepts. Overall, you will grasp the potential for the technology to achieve the cost and quality goals that have been proposed, and the barriers to achieving this success.