Last week I chaired the afternoon session of a conference organised by GovNet. The conference was about increasing healthcare efficiency through technology. As I commented in my talk technology promises a lot of savings for healthcare but whilst it delivers improvements in care it has rarely delivered the savings it has promised, and what we need now is a lot of efficiency delivery – not promises.
As at many of these conferences there were hundreds of exhibitor stands but on this occasion it is the exhibition that pays for the conference. Since this provides free entrance the audience contained a different range of members – those people who do not have a training budget and are much more likely to be doing the actual work of IT.
