HealthLeaders Media October 7, 2024
Eric Wicklund

A new survey finds that poor or ineffective technology is costing the healthcare industry $8 billion a year. Here are the eight biggest culprits.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

– Confusing EHRs, poor telehealth platforms, ineffective RCM tools and other bad technology investments are costing healthcare organizations $8 billion a year, up from less than $2 billion in 2017.

– Three out of four executives surveyed say they don’t have the money in their budgets to correct those mistakes.

– These problems could slow health systems and hospitals down or even prevent them from using AI and other tools to improve their operations and boost clinical outcomes.

Healthcare organizations are losing $8 billion a year to ineffective and outdated IT, and few have...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Provider, Survey / Study, Technology, Trends
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