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A New Study from the Gantry Group
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According to a new study from the Gantry Group, physicians and medical providers will be spending more money on health information technology tools and applications this year. And, their statistics suggest that healthcare providers are allocating forty percent or more of their current technology budget to clinical technology, in 2008.
This includes health information technology [HIT] expenditures for digital medical imaging, medication management, e-prescribing, RFID solutions, electronic medical records, patient care planning tools, patient documentation and various mobile applications.
Generally speaking doctors, physician-executives, CTOs, CIOs and most all organizational CXOs are moving away from custom, in-house created applications and looking for commercial packages that suit their needs.
By the end of 2008, over 80 percent of facilities will have invested in key clinical technologies, the Gantry Group predicted. The costliest items on provider budgets were digital medical imaging and electronic medical records, which in combination, ate up 64 percent of medical providers’ clinical technology budgets.
Conclusion
And so, what does your HIT budget look like for 2008; is it fixed, flexible, hybrid, zero-based or some other type?
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Does anyone have current information on the Wal-Mart pilot-testing program Dossia®, their massive Personal Health Record [PHR] initiative?
I understand the current pilot study includes about 20 Wal-Mart employees, as well as a few other folks from partner firms like Applied Materials, AT&T, Pitney Bowes, Cardinal Health and Sanofi-Aventis, etc.
The PHR technology is based on Indivo, an open-source PHR system developed by the Children’s Hospital of Boston, back in 1998. So, you can see my concern about using open-source code almost a decade old!
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