Healthcare IT Today June 3, 2020
It would be nice if the analytics packages included with EHRs did exactly what you hoped they would do. After all, you want the various capabilities you manage to play nicely with one another.
However, for many health IT leaders these analytics platforms just aren’t cutting it, if the results of a recent survey are any indication.
Dimensional Insight, which makes a healthcare business intelligence and analytics solution, surveyed 108 healthcare leaders about their use of analytics platforms. (Obviously, the fact that they offer a non–EHR analytics platform makes them less than neutral on the subject, but the numbers are still interesting.)
When responding to the survey, 90% of these organizations reported using the analytics in their EHRs, with 50%...