Inefficiencies caused by poor communication in the national health care system wastes about $25 billion per year of caregiver time and resources, according to a research briefing published by the Smith School’s Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS). The briefing is based on research by Ritu Agarwal, Robert H. Smith Dean’s Chair of Information Systems and director of CHIDS; Daniel Z. Sands, senior medical informatics director, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group and assistant clinical professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; and Jorge Diaz-Schneider.
To read more about this research or learn more about CHIDS, visitwww.smith.umd.edu/chids.
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