HIMSS Analytics makes 2011 data available at no charge
Universities and many governments will now have free aceess to 2011 data from the HIMSS Analytics database, the Dorenfest Institute for Health Information Technology, Research and Education, managed by the HIMSS Foundation.
The data covers information about health IT use at about 5,400 hospitals and 26,000 affiliated ambulatory facilities, according to a release. The information includes market overviews, adoption trends and vendor preferences. In the 2010 Year-End Report on Hospital EMR applications, very few hospitals planned to replace their EHR software; computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and physician documentation demonstrated the most growth; and in many categories Meditech was the preferred vendor.
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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.