QUESTION 6 Hospitals often face a trade-off between offering higher-quality care and the cost of care delivery. ICT and Telemedicine services can have an impact on this trade-off. The statements below describe the role that ICT and Telemedicine play in this context. Three of the following statements are wrong. Identify all the wrong statements.
a. ICT & Telemedicine may help hospitals lower the cost of care by helping hospitals schedule scarce resources more efficiently.
b. ICT & Telemedicine can help lower the cost of higher quality care by enabling better information flow to patients only if the hospital is able to support the ‘Facilitated Network’ model in addition to the existing modes of care delivery.
c. ICT & Telemedicine could enable hospitals that have implemented a fully functional EMR (or EHR) system to merge with or acquire entities that use the VAPD model of care delivery because fully functional EMRs (or EHRs) will transform these entities into a Solution Shop model of care providers.
d. A fully functional EMR (EHR) is more important for a VAPD model of care delivery than it is for a Solution Shop.
e. ICT & Telemedicine may help hospitals deal better with some of the problems of escalation in scale and scope of work. 5 points