IT Benefits Measurement: a Benchmarking Tool

Doug Thompson, Director, FCG, Dean F. Sittig, Ph.D. Director, Applied Research in Medical Informatics, Permanente Northwest, and Pat Wise, Director EHR Initiative, HIMSS, all representing the HIMSS Benefits Measurement Task Force, invite SI members to review and test the new benchmarking tool which SI members helped design. Standard definitions for a wide variety of clinical systems benefits have been developed along with web based data collection. Doug, Dean, and Pat take us through the tool, after which you can submit either realized or planned benefits, and receive the comparison report.