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Healthcare CIO: Final Report

PDAs, bar-coding and speech recognition are the top technologies that survey respondents intend to implement in the next two years.

The technologies most frequently used by healthcare organizations have not changed since 2003. Healthcare IT executives have identified the four most frequently used technologies as:

  • High-speed networks (implemented in 96 percent of healthcare organizations, compared with 95 percent in 2003)
  • Intranet (implemented in 88 percent of healthcare organizations, compared to 87 percent in 2003)
  • Client server systems (implemented in 82 percent of healthcare organizations, compared to 85 percent in 2003)
  • Wireless information systems (implemented in 72 percent of healthcare organizations, compared to 72 percent in 2003)
The top technologies that respondents plan to implement in the next two years are PDAs (55 percent), bar coding technology (54 percent) and speech recognition (53 percent). Presently, 28 percent of respondents report using speech recognition technology. Last year, 76 percent of respondents reported that wireless information systems were a top technology; this year only 47 percent of respondents report this to be among the top technologies of the future.

 

Figures:

Figure 17. Current Use of Information Technology
Figure 18. Technology Adoption (Next Two Years)

 


  
       
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