Healthcare IT Today May 28, 2020
Research collected over the course of last year suggests that hospitals plan to implement robotic process automation and AI technologies over the next few years.
The study, which was compiled by HIT vendor Olive, includes data collected by Sage Growth Partners at the 2019 HLTH and Becker’s Revenue Cycle conferences. Respondents included 89 executives whose roles included chief medical information officer, IT director and manager, revenue cycle manager and data analysis leader at hospital systems and independent hospitals in the US.
Olive’s research concluded that most healthcare leaders were familiar with the idea of process automation, with just 8% of respondents with the title “director” and 16% with that of “manager” reporting that they weren’t aware of such technology.
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