For the survey, the Naperville, Ill.-based health IT consultancy asked 56 hospital and health system CIOs from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives organization about their attitudes toward emerging technologies in the healthcare space.
Here’s how CIOs responded when asked to identify the IT trend with the most potential to make a “tangible, positive” impact on healthcare within the next two years.
1. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources and application programming interfaces: 50 percent
2. Natural language processing: 16.1 percent
3. Cloud computing: 14.3 percent
4. Machine learning: 12.5 percent
5. Don’t know or no opinion: 5.4 percent
6. Blockchain: 1.8 percent
Here’s how CIOs responded when asked to identify the most overhyped IT trend in terms of its potential to make a “tangible, positive” impact on healthcare within the next two years.
1. Blockchain: 48.2 percent
2. Cloud computing: 23.2 percent
3. Don’t know or no opinion: 10.7 percent
4. Machine learning: 7.1 percent
4. Natural language processing: 7.1 percent
6. FHIR and APIs: 3.6 percent
To access Impact Advisors’ survey, click here.
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