Technology Procurement Success: Avoiding Common Mistakes

One of the cornerstones of our e-Health future is the enabling technology infrastructure (including all of the communications, software, hardware and database technologies) that will combine to deliver the e-Health solutions we will require. As with the procurement and delivery of any cornerstone, it is important to turn our attention to some of the most common and important causes for e-Health technology procurement failure, and how to avoid those pitfalls.

Although the procurement of important (and often very expensive) e-Health technology infrastructure projects have very different structures and risks associated with them, they share one of the most common procurement mistakes – the frequent failure to fully and clearly define the procured technology in terms of its detailed operational, functional and technical specifications in the procurement contract.