Dear RIS Insider,
Information technology is critical to the success of healthcare organizations -- you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who disagrees. And given IT's importance in the delivery of quality care, one might assume that its governance in healthcare would be clear and unambiguous. But researchers have concluded otherwise.
A recent survey conducted by Chicago-based HIMSS Analytics, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) for-profit healthcare analysis division, took a look at the current role of the chief information officer (CIO) in a hospital setting.
The 235 respondents were from a cross-section of U.S. healthcare institutions, representing community hospitals to academic and teaching facilities. Some facilities had annual net revenues of less than $50 million, while others booked more than $1 billion each year.
The survey results showed that IT governance in healthcare is still somewhat amorphous, with the majority of organizations having shadow IT groups, such as radiology and laboratory sciences, outside the control of the CIO. In addition, success of an IT initiative often means something completely different for a clinician than it does for an information services executive.
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