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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