Providers Investing Heavily In Health IT, But Dissatisfied With Purchases

Nearly half (49 percent) of hospital executives say their largest capital investment over the coming year will be in health IT. Despite this heavy investment, many hospital leaders are not satisfied with their IT systems, particularly their electronic health record systems, according to a recent survey.

Health IT investments were predicted to be hospitals’ largest investments more often than infrastructure and construction costs (34 percent) and the acquisition of clinical equipment (22 percent). The number of hospital leaders that said health IT expenditures were the largest drivers of healthcare costs at their organizations jumped from 17 percent in last year’s survey to 27 percent this year.

However, these executives aren’t always pleased with their investments. About 30 percent of hospital leaders said they are dissatisfied with their current EHR system, and 11 percent reported indifference. Increasingly healthcare leaders are dissatisfied with their purchased EHR systems, often citing cost and difficulty of use.

How satisfied is your health system with your EHR system?

Providers need a solution that integrates clinical, financial and operational data across their hospitals and health systems; and the majority of EHR systems cannot do that.

Survey results are based on responses from 127 C-level executives representing 112 hospitals.

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