Health Imaging & IT - May 2008 - (Page 34)

survey findings By Mary C. Tierney the Data Behind the salary survey The Health Imaging & IT Healthcare IT Salary centage of facilities have a cardiovascular survey we conducted for this issue provides information system or utilize enterprise PACS? great insight into the salaries of IT professionThirty-three percent and 69 percent, respecals, but it goes beyond that to provide a snaptively. See the chart on page 39 for more shot of the business and IT priorities of our details. And how many are upgrading or readers CIOs, directors and managers of technireplacing their radiology information system? cal services, network engineers, PACS adminisNineteen percent (see chart on page 39). trators, directors and managers of information What is the No. 1 healthcare IT priority for systems, IT project managers, directors and 2008—and looking ahead to 2009 and 2010? managers of radiology informatics and cardiolStart with reducing medical errors. And what ogy informatics, systems administrators and are the top business issues—data security, network engineers. (Thank you to those who patient satisfaction or EMRs? Read on. took the time to participate!) Some 21 percent of the respondents heAlthcAre it PrioritieS are responsible for developing IT strate2008 2009 2010 gy for their entire organization or enterReducing Medical Errors 81% 8% 2% prise, while 18 percent handle a group Disaster Recovery 68% 13% 5% of facilities within the organization. Improving Departmental Workflow 67% 19% 4% Another 26 percent handle IT strategy Improving Data Security 65% 12% 5% for a clinical department. Survey responDelivering Clinical knowledge to Patients 60% 18% 7% Connecting IT Systems between Facilities 56% 10% 7% dents also reflect a solid cross-section of Implementing/upgrading Data Storage 55% 21% 6% healthcare facilities—from health sysImplementing/upgrading 54% 19% 9% tems and community hospitals to multiClinical Information Systems hospital IDNs and imaging centers. 52% 18% 9% Integrating Systems in a Multi-Vendor Environment We thought the data was too valuEnterprise-Wide Clinical Information Sharing 52% 21% 11% able not to share it. For example, who Connecting Remote locations to Hospitals 51% 10% 10% are the professionals most often found Implementing an EMR 51% 18% 10% on the technology purchasing decisionupgrade Network Infrastructure 48% 15% 10% making teams of hospitals, imaging Implementing Single Sign-On 47% 16% 13% centers and physician offices? The top Implementing a Clinical Portal 45% 21% 8% three are the CFO, CEO and CIO, but see Implementing CPOE 35% 24% 17% the whole list on page 36. What perDelivering Clinical knowledge to Patients 34% 21% 18% Health Imaging & IT | May 2008 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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