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Multiple-hospital System/IDN top 5 Business priorities 1 2 3 4 5 Improving productivity and workﬂow Patient/customer satisfaction improving patient care decreases in reimbursement creating new revenue sources  increase Revenue Watch  decrease 45%  5%–10%  41% 25%  < 5%  16% 18%  10%–15%  20% why is revenue increasing?  adding new technology that what are you doing to combat the decrease?     increases revenue delaying technology purchases Holding off filling vacant positions reducing staff trying to work more efficiently by investing in technology designed to increase productivity and efficiency closing facilities or departments  adding new clinical service line  increased marketing  cent of survey respondents have the same to spend as last year, again showing that IT is a much-needed investment among healthcare facilities. Only 3 percent of the survey base is seeing even a slight (<10 percent) decrease at all in their clinical IT systems budget. Upgrading IT infrastructure, like IT spending, is the No. 1 reason to spend in 2008. A close second is the need to add or improve remote access to reports and images, followed by overall growth in systems and technology, improving their competitive advantage via IT efficiencies and the need to support a new clinical service line with IT. Decreases in IT budgets are only happening in facilities seeing overall budget decreases. When it comes to replacing PACS, the odds are very much against going with the same vendor, no matter if you’re choosing a system for radiology, cardiology, orthopedics, nuclear medicine or ED. Only 1 to 4 percent are opting to stay with their current vendor if they are replacing PACS. Speech recognition is the No. 1 investment this year for technologies that enhance imaging and image reading—followed by advanced visualization, CPOE, decision-support software and CAD. In advanced visualization, 3D software is the most popular technology, followed by CT, cardiac viewing and function, calcium scoring and image fusion. In CAD, mammography is still king with 25 percent of respondents investing. But breast MRI interest is building, with 21 percent of respondents saying they’ll invest in the technology this year, followed by lung CAD (10 percent), colon (8 percent), ultrasound (7 percent) and breast ultrasound (7 percent top 10 IMAGING sYsTeMs purchases 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2008 Ultrasound ct digital mammo Mri cr dr PEt/ct cardiac cath lab sPEct sPEct/ct 2007 Digital Mammo ct Mri diagnostic Workstations ultrasound dr cardiac cath lab sPEct reading room cr 2006 CT ultrasound digital mammo Mri cr dr advanced viz PEt cad cardiac cath lab Who’s competing hardest with you? Free-standing imaging centers 53% general or acute-care hospitals 38% Physician group practices 33% specialty hospitals 15% adding new clinical service lines 1. cardiology 2. Women’s Health 3. outpatient center top Buys in 2008 IT $ data storage $ disaster recovery/ $ data network $ Wireless technologies BudGet watch: imaGinG systems Clinical IT $ cardiology Pacs $ ris $ cvis $ radiology Pacs Imaging Systems $ ultrasound $ ct* $ Mri** $ digital mammography $ dr business continuity $ Workﬂow analysis tools $ EMr * 38% 64-slice; 10% 128-slice; 9% 320-slice ** 27% 1.5t; 23% 3t More than half of respondents (52 percent) have increased spending on imaging equipment. Budgets remain unchanged for 39 percent of facilities, while 8 percent are decreasing, (albeit slightly, 5 percent is less than 10 percent). Overall growth in systems and technology is the top reason for more and continued investment, followed by adding new facilities and new clinical service lines as well as updating and renovating existing facilities. When imaging purchases are on the decline, either overall budget decreases (4 percent) or deteriorating financial conditions (3 percent) are to blame. Healthimaging.com 14 Health Imaging & IT | october 2008 http://www.Healthimaging.com

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