Healthcare IT Today March 11, 2021
New research suggests that healthcare organizations are getting increasingly serious about the deployment of precision medicine informatics.
According to a study appearing in the Journal of Precision Medicine and co-sponsored by XIFIN, 76% of respondents had invested in precision medical informatics (PMI), 18% said that they hadn’t made such investments but were planning to do so, 9% were just beginning plans and 6% had completed their PMI plans.
When asked what key business drivers prompted their PMI investments, 66.2% cited patient outcomes, 50% patient safety and 51.5% business strategy. Other areas of interest included customer needs, while 34% to 38% of participants listed quality, business efficiency, process optimization and cost savings as business drivers.
Notably, few of the respondents seem...