Big Data
Healthcare Reform and the role of IT
Currently there is a need for:
● Improving population health
● Higher patient experience
● Lower costs
● Lowering clinical burnout
E.g. America - one of the world’s wealthiest economies, but life expectancy is decreasing
Irish hospitals have a need to invest in IT - currently much data generated in Irish
secondary healthcare is unstructured e.g. discharge letters that cannot be interrogated
Healthcare Reform
● In virtually every country, the growth in healthcare demand is increasing more rapidly
than the willingness and, more ominously, the ability to pay for it.
● If left unaddressed, financial pressure, service demands driven by aging populations
and other demographic shifts, consumerism, expensive new technologies and
treatments, and the increased burden of chronic and infectious diseases will cause
most countries to reach a breakpoint.
● In Ireland – ED attendances and wait lists at all time high and yet relatively spending
is high. In Budget 2018 highest ever spending on Health.
● Chronic diseases are the key drivers of cost
● The trend for healthcare costs is upward
eHealth
● In 10 years:
○ >1 million over
65s
○ >85 population
will double
● Budget for healthcare has
been protected in times
of deprivation, but will
increasingly fall short with
increasing need
● The application of
eHealth without new
models of care will fail
Healthcare Reform and the role of IT
Currently there is a need for:
● Improving population health
● Higher patient experience
● Lower costs
● Lowering clinical burnout
E.g. America - one of the world’s wealthiest economies, but life expectancy is decreasing
Irish hospitals have a need to invest in IT - currently much data generated in Irish
secondary healthcare is unstructured e.g. discharge letters that cannot be interrogated
Healthcare Reform
● In virtually every country, the growth in healthcare demand is increasing more rapidly
than the willingness and, more ominously, the ability to pay for it.
● If left unaddressed, financial pressure, service demands driven by aging populations
and other demographic shifts, consumerism, expensive new technologies and
treatments, and the increased burden of chronic and infectious diseases will cause
most countries to reach a breakpoint.
● In Ireland – ED attendances and wait lists at all time high and yet relatively spending
is high. In Budget 2018 highest ever spending on Health.
● Chronic diseases are the key drivers of cost
● The trend for healthcare costs is upward
eHealth
● In 10 years:
○ >1 million over
65s
○ >85 population
will double
● Budget for healthcare has
been protected in times
of deprivation, but will
increasingly fall short with
increasing need
● The application of
eHealth without new
models of care will fail
