HIMSS February, 2017
1. Executive Summary The 2017 HIMSS Leadership and Workforce Survey reflects the perspectives of U.S. health IT leaders on a myriad of topics influencing the health IT industry. Weaving together key components from two historically seminal HIMSS research efforts (the annual HIMSS Leadership Survey and the biennial HIMSS Workforce Study), the present report provides a robust profile of health IT priorities as well as their linkage to various health IT strategic initiatives (e.g. employment of select IT leaders) and industry economic measures (e.g. workforce projections). Based on the feedback from 368 U.S. health IT leaders (210 from a...