The survey also showed more than half of respondents upgraded their healthcare organization’s power and cooling infrastructure when implementing new technology, indicating a strong correlation between these infrastructures and hospitals’ reliance on their IT systems.
Other key findings from the survey including the following:
• Thirty-two percent of those surveyed experienced unplanned downtime of their IT systems.
• Sixty percent of those surveyed said they plan to add more server and storage capacity in their hospitals.
• Twenty-seven percent of those surveyed plan to expand the existing hospital, while 15 percent plan to build an entirely new facility.
Read the news release about the health IT survey.
Read other coverage about health information technology:
– New Financial Risk Management Tool FIRM360 Helps Identify Financial Risks
– Study: 40% of Hospitals Plan to Invest in Health IT Solutions
– Government Health IT Panel Develops Quality Measures for Stage 2 Meaningful Use
