HL7 survey finds high turnover, anticipated integration
Health IT leadership has seen relatively high turnover, interface engine usage continues to be diverse and most organizations plan to stay with their current interface engines. Those are some of the findings of the 2014 HL7 Interface Technology Survey.
More than 24 percent of the CIO/CTO/CMIO category said they have been with their current organization for less than two years.
Almost three-quarters (74 percent) of organizations said they plan to stay with their current interface engines, along with 74 percent of organizations who plan to stay with their current vendor and either stay on the current version or update as appropriate with the same vendor.
Interface engines have more capability beyond their current use. Almost half (44.8 percent) of organizations report that while they are using their engine to satisfy their initial intent, they know there is more capability in their interface engine they have not yet harnessed.
Over 68 percent of organizations report to be working in some capacity with at least one health information exchange outside their organization. At the same time, participants report top issues to be integration, technology and the HIE’s business model sustainability.
Respondents named Meaningful Use as their top IT priority.
Integration activity will increase over the next 12 months, according to the survey.
More than 860 individuals participated in the survey and all work at healthcare organizations, predominantly providers, that use HL7 interfaces.
Access the complete survey results.
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Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.