Host: Now for all the leadership and innovation that you've been working on at the hospitals how does that translate into cost savings and better patient care?
Guest: Currently in my IT department is 2% of the operating budget of the organization. So we continue to add more and more computerization. 85% electronic health records, more and more storage, more and more services to more and more departments and patients but as a percentage of operating cost we have not gone up. And we have certainly been able to reduce medication error by 50% through some of the use of electronic health records and ePrescribing. So that's the key. Sort of more is law for health care. Innovate faster and more without increasing cost.
Host: And where does that innovation come from? Where does that bug come from so to speak that keeps you on the frontier of all these changes in the health care industry and IT?
Guest: Well, I think everybody in my organization has a passion for the patient. Some of us are doctors, but all of us are patients. And when you have your grandmother hospitalized and you know that the medications are delivered correctly and that person is going to get personal quality care you feel pretty good about what you do.
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