Introduction 1 - Executive Summary 2 - Methodology 3 - Profile of Survey Respondents 4 - IT Priorities 5 - IT Barriers 6 - IT Applications 7 - IT Security 8 - Technology Adoption 9 - Web Site/Intranet Use 10 - IT Outsourcing/Satisfaction w/ Vendor Performance 11 - IT Budget and Staff 12 - Survey Sponsors 13 - How to Cite This Study 14 - For More Information

Technology Adoption

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

For the fourth consecutive year, survey respondents identified high-speed networks and Intranet technology as the top technologies that are currently in use at their organization. High-speed networks were selected by 95 percent of 2005 respondents; this option has been selected by at least 90 percent of respondents since 2002. Intranet technology was selected by 86 percent of respondents in 2005, and it has been identified by at least 82 percent of respondents since 2002.

Wireless information systems (79 percent) and client server systems (78 percent) round out the top four. Both of these technologies were in the top four of the 2004 survey.

The top technologies that respondents plan to implement in the next two years are PDAs (59 percent), bar coding technology (59 percent) and speech recognition (59 percent). These are the same technologies that were identified as top technologies in the 2004 survey. Automated alerts to clinicians were also identified as a technology that at least half of respondents would like to implement in the next two years (57 percent).

Figure 16. Current Use of Information Technology

Figure 17. Technology Adoption (Next Two Years)