In the October issue of Health Imaging & IT, Lisa Fratt analyzes the top trends and priorities in healthcare IT for the year to come. Here is a sneak peek at the survey results:
Workflow as a top priority
Nearly 70% of respondents rated improving workflow as a “very important” priority, and large hospitals (500+beds) rate it the #1 priority. Most aim to tackle patient scheduling and registration and many plan to focus on physician and technicians’ productivity.
First time investment
68% of facilities that do not have clinical IT yet say they are currently evaluating speech recognition technology:
Replacements / upgrades
IT solutions that rank high in the 2008 purchase or replacement cycle include enterprise image management, voice recognition and enterprise data storage (to handle that extra image volume). Voice recognition ranks second with 33% of responses:
Ways to improve productivity
Number 3 on the list is physician productivity.
Nearly 40% of healthcare facilities claim DRA cuts encourage them to try to work more efficiently by investing in technology designed to increase productivity/efficiency.
Speech Recognition 
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