Dive Brief:
- Hospital and health system CIOs are facing growing pressure from their organizations to realize value from their EHR investment now that most have decided upon an enterprise EHR, according to an Impact Advisors survey of CIOs and health IT professionals.
- Hospital executives are looking for evidence of tangible improvements in clinical and revenue cycle outcomes tied to EHR implementation.
- More than 70% of the survey respondents agreed their organization's top IT priorities are projects that pull more value out of their EHR investment.
Dive Insight:
Among the report's conclusions are "[o]ptimization challenges are very real, and outside help will likely be needed."
Of the respondents, 35% said their EHR has helped their organization achieve productivity and efficiency goals. The majority, however, are not yet there; 16% said their EHR has hindered their goals and 41% said it has neither helped nor hindered.
The challenges to realizing more value from EHRs include competing priorities (73%), lack of process improvement resources to augment IT redesign (41%), lack of operational focus (32%) and budget constraints (30%).
Nearly three quarters of respondents say their organization plans to obtain outside assistance from either a services firm or their EHR vendor.