The Health Care Economics of Automating Health Care Systems

Abstract

 In today's environment health care has become a key issue. Initiatives such as BCMA, RFID, CPOE, and EHR that require expensive automation implementations are being scrutinized. This research transcript describes a process for: 1) evaluating health care economic societal impact, 2) evaluating the implementation costs for automation such as barcodes and RFID into the pharmaceutical supply chain, 3) evaluating the risk factors associated with integration of multiple healthcare automation initiatives. The research results to date describe lot control of track-able capsules from manufacturer, to dosage level administration in hospitals, and ingestion confirmation for at-home patients.