Healthcare Innovation March 20, 2019
Health IT leaders rate updating technology to improve the patient experience as their top objective for 2019, according to the seventh annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey conducted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc.
For this year’s survey, more than 300 healthcare professionals participated, representing a spectrum of provider facilities including health systems, standalone hospitals, physician practices and other ambulatory care facilities. Clinical IT professionals led survey participation (38 percent), while executive/C-suite leaders followed closely behind (36 percent).
Forty-two percent of health IT leaders said that updating technology to improve the patient experience is their top objective for 2019, followed by measuring improvement in patient care (33 percent). These two goals far surpass the more traditional goals of “improving staff retention and...