IT Barriers
Lack of financial support/lack of budget continues to be reported as the most significant barrier to IT implementation.
Lack of adequate financial resources/lack of budget continues to be identified most frequently as the most significant barrier to a successful implementation of IT; it was selected by 28 percent of respondents. This is the ninth consecutive year that this issue has been selected as the top barrier.
The only other issues selected by at least ten percent of respondents were lack of staffing resources (15 percent) and vendors’ inability to deliver products/services to satisfaction (10 percent). These two items were also identified as top three barriers in the previous year’s survey.
Least frequently identified as a barrier to the successful implementation of IT were laws/regulations prohibiting technology sharing with referring providers and lack of effective project management. Each of these items was identified by only one percent of respondents.
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