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2008 Healthcare IT Salary Survey Health systems, hospitals, imaging centers and physician’s offices continue to use more information systems to manage and connect a variety of departments and facilities, improve workflow and ensure quality patient care. Combine this with the implementation of newer solutions such as computerized physician order entry and electronic medical records, and it’s clear that more people and roles are required to oversee the systems. In response to these changes, this year we’ve expanded our annual PACS Administrator Salary Survey into a Healthcare IT Salary Survey. Response was excellent. So over the next several pages, we’re taking a closer look at the Top Ten Job Titles by number of respondents to gain insight into salaries as well as education levels, FTEs they supervise and the departments to which they Diving Deeper report. For a look inside the data, If we look at all of the at the top business and titles collectively, the technology priorities of majority of healthcare IT healthcare IT workers are male, between professionals, what IT systems they are buying 41 and 50 years old and hold and eyeing and what’s on a bachelor’s degree. Most the top of their to-do list received a bonus last year in 2008, 2009 and 2010— and most earned a 3 percent turn to page 34. raise. Not surprisingly, chief information officers are at the high end of the healthcare IT earning scale, averaging a salary of $180,000 to $200,000, according to survey results. Systems administrators are at the lower end of the healthcare IT earning scale, averaging $40,000 to $50,000. The majority of healthcare IT positions are still budgeted within the radiology department, but we’re seeing more folks reporting to IS/IT and cardiology as well. Most respondents have been in their current position between 1 and 6 years. A CIO is most likely responsible for 21 to 50 FTEs, and handle 1 to 5 facilities. The majority have been in healthcare IT for 7 to 12 years to P 10 i t J o b t i t l e S by n u m b e r o f r e S P o n D e n t S 1 2 5 6 8 9 10 PACS Administrator* Director/Manager of Information Systems IT Project Manager Chief Information Officer Director/Manager of Radiology Informatics Systems Administrator Programmer/Analyst Director/Manager of Technical Services Director/Manager of Cardiology Informatics Network Engineer Note: Number is elevated because survey was previously dedicated exclusively to PACS Administrators. t yPe of orgAniZ Ation you WorK for Physician Group Practice › 4% Academic Medical Center › 4% Free-standing Imaging Center › 5% Stand-alone Hospital › 9% Multi-hospital/IDN › 12% Healthcare System › 9% Community Hospital › 27% heAlthc Are orgAniZ Ation by SiZe 201–00 Beds › 16% 100–200 beds › 15% No beds › 14% 601–1,000 beds › 9% 501–600 beds › 5% 301–400 beds › 9% 1–100 beds › 9% 401–500 beds › 10% More than 1,000 beds › 13% D e PA r t m e n t yo u Wo r K f o r Cardiology › 4% Technical Services › 4% Clinical Engineering › 5% Other › 7% Administrative › 13% IS/IT › 28% The fine print Health Imaging & IT posted the online survey of 40 questions from March 7 to March 28 on HealthImaging.com and solicited participation from the readers of Health Imaging & IT and subscribers of Health Imaging News, our daily e-newsletter. In all, 633 respondents completed the survey and emailed it to us for tabulation. Duplicate and incomplete surveys were eliminated from the results. HealthImaging.com Radiology 9% May 2008 | Health Imaging & IT 2 http://HealthImaging.com http://HealthImaging.com

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Health Imaging & IT - May 2008 Contents On the Web The Enterprise News Update Convention Spotlight: SIIM 2008 Healthcare IT Salary Survey Survey Findings Inside the Transition to Next-Generation Image Management Blurring the Lines: Interfaced vs. Integrated RIS/PACS The Insider's Primer: Taming the Workflow Beast - Five Facilities Tell How Availability, Applications Drive New Archive Strategies Modality Review Managing Technology Inside Technology Reader's Resource Stat Sheet

Health Imaging & IT - May 2008

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