Vendor CEO: Final Report

Survey respondents were asked to identify the five healthcare applications areas they considered to be the most important for their healthcare clients over the next two years. EMRs were cited most frequently, identified by 60 percent of respondents; 51 percent of 2003 respondents identified this application as a priority. Rounding out the top three are CPOE, identified by 55 percent of respondents, and clinical information systems, identified by 47 percent of respondents.

Last year, enterprise-wide clinical information application sharing was identified most frequently, by 52 percent of respondents. This year, only 36 percent of respondents identified this application as being among the most important for their clients. Web-based applications (28 percent) and enterprise-wide master patient index (18 percent) were each identified by substantially fewer respondents in 2004 than in 2003.