Health IT Analytics January 25, 2018
Jennifer Bresnick

FHIR has the potential to make a big impact on healthcare by 2020, but CIOs are more skeptical about blockchain, machine learning, and natural language processing.

Healthcare CIOs are proceeding cautiously with their health IT innovation projects as they balance industry hype around emerging technologies like blockchain with the promises of FHIR and big data analytics, according to a late 2017 survey of CHIME members conducted by Impact Advisors.

The small survey of 56 executives revealed a landscape of uneven investment and varying levels of skill and commitment to big data analytics.

Close to half of respondents are not making any concerted effort to drive innovation within their organizations, and less than 20 percent have defined portions of their budget...

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