03/09/2010
Nearly half of health care professionals surveyed said their organization would be eligible for federal stimulus package incentive payments for the "meaningful use" of electronic health records by fiscal year 2011. Another 32% of survey respondents said their organization would qualify for the incentive payments by FY 2012.
02/26/2010
Ninety percent of health care professionals surveyed said they strongly agree or agree that health IT employers are more likely to hire IT workers with health care industry experience and knowledge. However, 10% of survey respondents said only IT skills matter when hiring to fill health care IT positions.
02/18/2010
Nearly 24 million Americans, or about 10% of the total U.S. online population, visited a health insurance Web site in Q4 2009, according to comScore. Aetna Web sites were the most visited, with 4.8 million unique visitors in Q4 2009, followed by BlueCross BlueShield sites with 4.1 million unique visitors.
02/12/2010
A recent report from CDC's National Center for Health Statistics finds that women are more likely than men to look up health information online, use online chat groups to learn about health topics, communicate with health care providers via e-mail, refill prescriptions online and schedule physician appointments online.
02/05/2010
Thirty-two percent of health IT professionals surveyed said their health care organization has had a patient safety or health care quality issue that directly resulted from having an electronic system, while 10% said their clients have reported patient safety or health care quality issues that were a direct result of having an electronic system.
01/27/2010
Seventy-one percent of U.S. health care executives surveyed said that electronic health record systems are likely to get attention and budget approval in their hospitals in 2010, while 53% of survey respondents predicted that computerized physician order entry systems would receive attention and hospital budget approval in 2010.
01/20/2010
In 2009, 46% of online physicians in Western Europe reported watching Web videos for professional purposes, according to a recent survey by Manhattan Research. In 2006, just 28% of physicians with Internet access in Western Europe reported using online videos for professional purposes.
01/08/2010
A new survey finds that 32% of hospitals use the capabilities required to demonstrate "meaningful use" of electronic health records to qualify for incentive payments under the federal economic stimulus package. Only 16% of small hospitals say they use the capabilities required to demonstrate meaningful use of EHRs.
12/17/2009
Thirty-six percent of health IT professionals surveyed said their organization has a policy in place outlining the appropriate use of externally operated social technology tools by employees, compared with 29% of respondents who said their organization does not have such a policy in place, according to a new survey.
12/10/2009
Eighteen percent of health care information management executives said they were very concerned about meeting deadlines for proposed "meaningful use" standards. Another 20% of survey respondents said they were concerned, while 27% said they were somewhat concerned, and 8% said they were not at all concerned.
12/02/2009
Eighty-five percent of online adults from the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain report using the Internet to find health and prescription drug information. The survey found that Wikipedia is a top online health resource for consumers in the countries surveyed.
11/24/2009
The Internet is the most popular health resource among physicians, according to a new online survey. Eighty-six percent of doctors said they have used the Internet to search for health, medical or prescription drug information, compared with 77% who have consulted peer review journals and 67% who have turned to their colleagues.
11/16/2009
Health care providers cited the use of technology as their top method for preparing for potential Medicare payment cuts, according to a new survey. More than 30% of health care providers surveyed said they plan to make better use of technology to help offset proposed Medicare payment cuts.
11/06/2009
Forty-six percent of U.S. primary care physicians use electronic health records, compared with 97% of primary care physicians in Norway, 96% of primary care physicians in the United Kingdom and 95% of primary care physicians in Australia, according to a new survey from the Commonwealth Fund.
10/29/2009
Nine out of 10 health care executives said they somewhat or strongly agree that there needs to be better guidelines on how secondary electronic health record data should be used and shared, according to a recent survey. Sixty-six percent of pharmaceutical companies, 65% of health care provider organizations and 54% of health care payers use some form of secondary health data.