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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

What Technologies Are Likely To Get Attention and Budget Approval in Hospitals in 2010?

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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, according to a recent StatCom survey.

Meanwhile, 53% of U.S. health care executives surveyed said that computerized physician order entry systems are likely to receive attention and budget approval in their hospitals in 2010, the survey found.

Thirty-one percent of survey respondents predicted that patient flow and logistics technology would receive attention and hospital budget approval in 2010.

Results are based on a November 2009 survey of 440 U.S. health care executives.

Source: StatCom, "2009 National Survey on the Impact of Technology in Healthcare Reform"

Reader Comments:
  • 3
  • 02/04/2010
  • Loretta Altman-Pollack

Does anyone know of good articles that deal with the Open Source in Healthcare IT?

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  • 02/02/2010
  • LuAnn Kimker

Unfortunately, The fact that patient flow and logistic is not included in the fund spent on EHR is part of the larger problem. To be successfully integrated and to get the data input and output you want for care delivery and outcomes it is essential to spend $$ on both.

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  • 01/28/2010
  • Michael Guerrero

Does anyone know what the difference is between EHRs and patient flow & logistics systems in terms of technologies? From my point of view, EHR is a "file" and some associated inputting technologies and patient flow/logistics are the technologies allowing for disparate hospital departments & IT systems to exchange electronic information and flag items, etc.

Does it make sense for an EHR provider to offer or already have a built-in patient flow system with their own EHR technology?

Just curious.



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