Determination of Return on Investment in Healthcare Simulation

摘要

As funding sources for using simulation for training healthcare personnel become more selective and the requirements for transparency increase, return on investment (ROI) becomes increasingly important to the decision making process. This paper draws from existing ROI model for healthcare simulation and provide a modified approach in the definition of qualitative and quantitative parameter for computing ROI as well as how to consider other relevant, non-ROI parameters, in the decision making process. A new ROI methodology for healthcare simulation program investments is presented as a modified approach to the Kirkpatrick's "Four Levels of Evaluation" and Phillips "Fifth Level" for measuring performance in training and human performance technology. Ultimately, future work to include concepts of the value measuring methodology (VMM) developed by the US Federal CIO council [14] are discussed and presented.