Healthcare IT News November 15, 2019
Nathan Eddy

Just under half (49 percent) of all post-acute providers surveyed said the state of their staff’s health information technology proficiency is either “extremely poor” or “non-existent,” a new Black Book report shows.

Almost one in five post-acute facilities have been operating at negative margins for the past five years or longer, a BlackBook survey of 1,640 providers of long-term and post-acute care revealed, and 84 percent of post-acute administrators report having no budgeted funds for technology acquisitions or improvements in 2019.

Post-acute care providers are at continued risk in 2020 due to underfunding from their respective states, rising labor costs and complicated documentation requirements, with “very limited funds” for any new IT and tech-related staffing.

While health information exchanges –...

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