Hospitals’ Top 10 IT Staffing Needs

According to the 2013 HIMSS Analytics Database, the average hospital’s IT department employs an average of 39 full-time equivalents. However, many organizations cited the need for additional employees to best handle this year’s many IT projects and initiatives, according to the 25th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey.

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According to the survey, the following are the areas of hospitals’ greatest staffing needs:

1. Clinical application support (36 percent)
2. Network/architecture support (29 percent)
3. Clinical informatics (21 percent)
4. IT security (20 percent)
5. Systems integration (16 percent)
6. User training (13 percent)
7. System design/implementation (12 percent)
8. Help desk (12 percent)
9. PC/server support (12 percent)
10. Regulatory/reimbursement (10 percent)

Survey results are based on responses from 298 senior-level IT executives from hospitals and health systems.

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