医疗系统获投资技术升级

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When the senior management team all got together, I started in May of last year. And then it took us a few months to get the whole senior management team recruited. And I looked into the horizon, I was trying to figure out how we could improve health care, cut cost and make it more efficient. One of the things that really stuck out is that from an IT point of view, there was a lot of pieces lacking that can really streamline function.

Health care information technology is, is still relatively new. It’s kind of early generations and typically the data, that’s in those systems, has been locked up traditionally, at least .And what we’re really trying to do in a lot of different ways is kind of unlock that data and then be able to aggregate it, whether it's across hospitals or from the inpatient and outpatient areas and to get a sort of total picture of the patient and also get a total picture of the populations of people that we care for.”

Given where the markets that we're in, we are a high-quality, lower-cost alternative to some of the medicine of our competitors. And this is a niche for us. And you know we are confident that we can continue to reduce the ongoing cost to the payers, to the patients themselves in long term, in their premiums without reducing quality and in fact increasing quality. And this, you know, if you think about information technology in quality, that's a slam dunk.

It's costing about 17 million dollars over a three-year-period, a lot of that is being provided in contracts with the payers. Um, and some of it has been provided in grants. So and the rest, we are funding from our operations.

"I think that the, the vision that we have from going forward is to look more at the dynamic integrative stage. So that we can have bi-directional, maybe it’s a Health 2.0 or Web 2.0 or something like that. But to have it more interactive, its care delivery redesigned, it's not just plugging in an electronic health record. You know, we’re trying to bring all, all of the wisdom that’s out there, and the 20 something generation, and make it applicable to health care across the continuing.

Vocabulary:

1.       recruit: to find new people to work in a company, join an organization, do a job etc

2.       stick out: be highly noticeable突出，显眼

3.       streamline: to make something such as a business, organization etc work more simply and effectively

4.       inpatient: someone who stays in a hospital while they receive treatment

5.       outpatient: someone who goes to a hospital for treatment but does not stay for the night门诊病人

6.       niche: A special area of demand for a product or service

7.       premium: A sum of money or bonus paid in addition to a regular price, salary, or other amount.

8.       slam dunk: A forceful dramatic move[slang]

9.       grant: an amount of money given to someone, especially by the government, for a particular purpose

10.   Health 2.0: the participatory healthcare characterized by the ability to rapidly share, classify and summarize individual health information with the goals of improving health care systems, experiences and outcomes via integration of patients and stakeholders.

11.   plug in: to connect a piece of electrical equipment to the main supply of electricity, or to another piece of electrical equipment